D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber (Hanover Square Press, 2020); audiobook read by Isabel Adomakoh Young (Penguin Audio, 2020) D makes an immediate impact combining the narrative voice of an inquisitive outsider with a surreal, allegory-laden core concept. Unfortunately, the transition from one world to another sees a diminishing of both, the story becoming a whimsical quest…
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42 Word Review: Under the Skin
Under the Skin dir. Jonathan Glazer (2014) Stylish, stark, disquieting, yet strangely superficial, this loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel is largely art for art’s sake. Scarlet Johansson excels as a vulnerable, predatory alien who while struggling to comprehend the world becomes wilfully subsumed by her own human disguise.