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Berendt's investigation gives him an excuse to hang out with an array of beguiling Venetians, including Count Girolamo Marcello, a wry nobleman who lives in a 600-year-old palace. "What is true? What is not true?" Count Marcello asks. "The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change ... That is the Venice effect." --By Lev Grossman...
...cerebral, vulnerable inquisitor who takes up sleuthing in the late 1930s to heal the trauma she experienced as a nurse in the Great War. Set in an era when women were grappling with modernity, Pardonable Lies, the third of this young series, sends Maisie on a quest for truth, during which secrets and lies lead instead to self-discovery. --By Johanna McGeary
...this low-budget picture a hit. That, however, is not quite the whole story here. Yes, the dialogue is reliably obscene, not to say misogynistic, homophobic and not reproducible in these genteel pages. But it is often--how one hates to admit this--funny in its deplorable way. And truth be told, there is also something curiously innocent about the movie...
...truth is, even if Ellis decided to drop all the layers and the games, you get the feeling he wouldn't know how. He's just as confused as we are. "I'm a weird person," he insists. "I'm not normal. Do you think the guy you're sitting across from, who wrote these books and who's put himself out there, do you think that that's, like, conducive to normal behavior? I'm beginning to think it's not. I'm beginning to think it's all one big mistake." He gives me the quizzical stare again...
...establish the truth about the history of Africa” is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain’s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...