| 单词 | allegory |
| 例句 | In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It communicates partly by implying meanings through pose, facial expression, allegory, and the like. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is an allegory. Those beasts of prey represent our worldly troubles,” Brother Ugo explained. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The painting is a personal statement, an allegory, and it is also a glimpse into the future. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory, or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The great hero of mythology, Hercules, might be an allegory of Greece herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But Diderot’s peculiar chapter also serves as a warning: with its dream framing, its monsters and its allegories, its linguistic slipperiness, it conveys a sense of difficulty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From what I know of Samuel, he will be a big flop as a ranger, but the allegory, I know, will be challenging and controversial, full of unpleasant truths. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "The thing with children's allegories," she explained to the others, "is not to question anything." Digested classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum 2010-05-14T12:06:00Z The park has a reflecting pool, diagonal walkways crisscrossing beneath oak, maple and locust trees, and bronze sculptures, like the 1832 allegory of the French Revolution, “Lion Crushing a Serpent,” by Antoine-Louis Barye. 36 Hours in Philadelphia 2013-01-03T19:28:42Z This may be an allegory of modern city dwellers no longer home a la campagne. Picasso in Britain and Lucian Freud ? the week in art 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z There is easy symbolism to be had in that contrast, but Adams is thankfully less interested in allegory than in cutting satire. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Plato’s cave, which involves illusion and manipulation, is a driving allegory in the book, which is also undergirded by the cultural thinker Jean Baudrillard’s theories of the relationship between reality and simulation. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z He said he suddenly saw the show “as an allegory for the American Revolution: noncombatants against a vastly overwhelming military force,” he said. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z Like “Die Hard,” this is a Christmas movie, which is to say a religious allegory in sometimes hokey holiday dress. ‘The Green Knight’ Review: Monty Python and the Seventh Seal 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Mashing together the fear-mongering of white supremacy with legitimate criticism of America’s wars makes for an awkward allegory that occasionally undermines the book’s core assertions. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z This setup once could have been read as an allegory for the tribulations endured by the presumptive audience for the comic-book series from which the movies sprang. Movie Review: ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Stars Chloë Grace Moretz 2013-08-15T22:04:11Z Needless to say, an allegory about Islamist tensions has never been rendered so sacrilegiously. “True Blood” bites back 2012-06-08T12:15:00Z The film proves much more valuable as a historical allegory than as a musical survey. 'Don't Think I've Forgotten' a deft look back at Cambodia's pop scene Working in Prague as a court artist for the Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II, he painted and drew Mannerist-style allegories involving nude and nearly nude gods and goddesses athletically entwined in anatomically improbable positions. Getting to Know Bartholomeus Spranger at the Met 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The play feels unfinished and unbalanced, but when it clicks, it's an inventive allegory for how one's inner world of art and imagination can become a refuge, and a healing place. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z It is an allegory about what not to do. Americans love zombies because they remind us of the Wild West 2013-02-11T14:15:00Z An allegory for Hitchcock's infamouslycontrolling attitude to the women in his films, this nightmarish makeoverscenario forces lovers apart rather than bringing them together. Clip joint: makeovers 2011-03-02T16:59:00Z And it dawns on you that Price, like Conrad, could go from literary setting to rough-hewn reality, then emerge with an allegory of the experience. How Richard Price does it: New York dialogue, only better 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z This isn’t a tight, tidy allegory of capitalism and colonialism so much as a collage of vivid images, sounds and words that punch the movie’s themes like hashtags. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “That’s how we are treating it — more of an allegory than an actual, physical person.” Marc Chagall: The French painter who inspired the title ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ But the imagery and shifting subtleties in the lyrics suggest a political allegory, and the song is often understood as a veiled critique. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z A brilliant allegory that imagines a world in the grip of fascism and that — as throngs of desperate people seek asylum — becomes a frightening, all-too-real vision of our own world. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Although the exposition can seem lumpy at times, the play here convinces as both realism and allegory. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z One of the great horror thrillers of contemporary US cinema and a brilliant allegory for the plot twist of the US post-Obama. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z For so long, so much about Michael Jackson won our awe, our pity, our bewilderment, our identification, our belief that he was a metaphor, an allegory, a beacon, a caveat — for, of, about America. Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z This one from 1967 is light as air, and is a great example of a Smokey lyric: extended allegory, expressed in everyday language. Readers recommend: B-sides ? the results 2011-02-03T16:36:46Z And if you sense an allegory there, it might just cheer you up. ‘Emojiland’ Review: There’s a Rom-Com in Your Phone. With Music. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z A stylized allegory, the opera meditates on the wonder, struggle and ephemeral nature of the creative process, of finding one’s own voice. ‘Desire’ Is an Operatic Glimpse Into a Secret Garden 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z In “Surrender of Reason,” blindfolded white doves skim a baroque sea of blood-red — an allegory, perhaps, on the perils of blind faith. ‘Twisted Impressions’ show is ghoulish, thought-provoking 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The accuracy may be dubious, but biopics are more like allegories anyway, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Steve Jobs’ and ‘Portlandia’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “An appreciation of the transience of things, and the concern to rescue them for eternity, is one of the strongest impulses in allegory,” the philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “It’s an allegory about being a woman in a patriarchal, capitalist world,” she said. The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The Scroll of Esther is thus allegory as national autobiography: the story of a Diaspora Jewry regularly threatened with rapacious assaults by hostile neighbors and historic foes. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z Each film, a whole fashioned from disparate pieces, offers an allegory for the nation itself, as a collective forged out of solidarity rather than superficial similarities. The Best Genre Movies of 2022 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In another Ionesco allegory, a 1961 production of “Rhinoceros,” Mr. Wallach gave a low-key performance as a nondescript clerk in a city where people are being transformed into rhinoceroses. Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor, Dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z This anxiety-fueled allegory, which takes place in a luxury resort on a desert island, is an exercise in desecration, as a pale-skinned British family that stinks of privilege and entitlement is brought to its knees. London Theater Journal: A Hellish Vacation 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Even given the timing of its production, Slaboshpytskiy is, nevertheless, reluctant to declare the film any kind of allegory for the recent political unrest in his homeland. 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It also works as an art-world allegory, an almost comically melodramatic indictment of everyone involved — deluded artist, reptilian dealer and callous public alike. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z They have some persuasive ideas: Passages suggesting that Kubrick conceived the film as an allegory for genocide — filling it with allusions to the Holocaust and to the slaughter of Native Americans — are convincing. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z After Day uses the word in his appraisal of the contestants' work, they later reveal that the term was a hoax all along – a sugary allegory for socially fueled misinformation. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Which isn’t to say that the documentaries aren’t intriguing, or light on the task at hand, or scintillating in their positioning of Fyre festival as the allegory of millennial adulthood. Fighting Fyre with Fyre: the story of two warring festival documentaries 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Distilling "Gen V" to this makes it an allegory for consent . . . in theory. "Gen V" is bloody and raunchy enough to live up to the expectations set by "The Boys" 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z "I chose names that would not cause the reader to feel like there was hidden meaning in them, or that the characters were symbolic or the story was an allegory," he says. Getting a handle on naming characters 2011-02-18T12:16:24Z I love tennis because it’s an allegory for life. All Seal Needs Is Love 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z It also plays as a veiled allegory of the present moment. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z This opera might be considered an allegory, as in both cases a greedy, lust-filled man left ruin in the wake of his single-minded pursuit. Vespertine company is small but mighty in ‘Lucretia’ 2014-01-11T19:12:28Z Especially one so determinedly unfashionable as Venice — a grandiose, over-the-the-top, melodramatic mix of political allegory and Shakespearean tragedy, set to hip-hop music by a white guy from the suburbs? Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z Maybe “Cars 2” is a dystopian allegory for an era of ecological anxiety. | 'Cars 2': Tow Truck Takes the Lead on a Second Lap 2011-06-23T12:00:00Z Would it help if you knew that it’s an allegory with enormous resonance in our politically stormy age? So You Know Nothing About ‘Harry Potter’? Let’s Catch You Up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z The book is often treated as an extended allegory about fascism. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In the view of the government, this book is a veiled allegory championing the ideology of political dissidents. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Around World War II, crime became an allegory for an anti-work ethos: little effort, big payoff. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Due to the US officially remaining neutral when the movie was made, fiction and reality are intertwined to both mask and reinforce the allegory of Allies and Nazis. Foreign Correspondent 2012-08-27T15:48:42Z Monfrooe bills the story as an allegory, but without knowing who the women are meant to represent, it's hard to tell what it's an allegory of. Poke/Wuthering Heights – review 2013-04-24T16:47:25Z It’s an allegory for the Democrats, he suggests. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “Death in Her Hands” becomes a kind of allegory for the work of a novelist. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Knowing his penchant for heavy-handed allegory, you might think that putting a video by Mr. Viola in the exhibition would not be a good idea. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z This is Danaë's golden shower in perpetual motion: an allegory of power and monstrous greed. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z Both, however, stand as harsh political allegories of oppressive human frameworks. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z It also reads like an allegory of the powerful and the powerless, with a red Boschian devil in a lower corner devouring, one hopes, the evil ones. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Embedded in the passages of cosmology, microbiology and spiritual allegory is a story whose familiarity is at least as important to the design of “The Tree of Life” as the speculative flights that surround it. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z Marilyn Stasio of Variety wrote that "the lyrical language of Sting’s mournful score gives poetic voice to the distressed shipbuilders, but depicting their story as a heroic allegory is regrettably alienating." Sting musical 'The Last Ship' opens on Broadway to mixed reviews 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z If it’s a fable, it’s a political fable, an allegory of powerlessness, revolt and liberation. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Morgan’s predilection for allusion and allegory is stronger than ever in Season 5. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Serling, who died in 1975, envisioned “The Twilight Zone” as a delivery system for parables with deliberate messages of social justice and allegories of human weakness and folly, coated in a digestible layer of fantasy. After ‘Us,’ Jordan Peele Crosses Over to ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z This has left me a little shy of talking about allegory, and very shy of ever mentioning “The Pilgrim’s Progress.” Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Coetzee for his emphasis on the artificiality of fiction and for his mythical geography that reduces countries to allegories and characters to archetypes. Review | The relentlessly introspective vision of Gerald Murnane 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z That’s a problem built into the bloated mash-up of genres: Comedy is based on particularizing human behavior, but allegory is based on generalizing it. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A black man, Lafala, loses his legs as a result of his white captors’ cruelty, then, in a striking allegory for reparations, receives a compensatory windfall. A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Moreover, the book is like an allegory of the challenges we face in today’s dark times. How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But “Dutchman” endures because it resists simple allegory. Theater Review: The Racially Charged ‘Dutchman’ at National Black Theater 2014-05-07T17:02:48Z Mr. Zvyagintsev layers social commentary, intense emotion and spiritual allegory without ever losing the human dimension of the narrative. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet Ogawa did not intend to write a political allegory, she said. Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: ‘I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes’ 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z His works range from huge to miniature and encompass political allegories and drawings documenting his dreams. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “But this is not simply a Christian allegory,” he says. ArtsBeat Blog: Critics' Picks Video: 'Au Hasard Balthazar' 2011-10-18T18:08:31Z It’s also a surprisingly moving allegory for our times. In Arrival, Amy Adams Takes a Listening Tour of the Universe 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Offended by the obviousness of Mr. Hill’s allegory, Kael detected a form of class bias. ‘Southern Comfort’ and 'Hearts and Minds' on DVD 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z They are also both using figurative art to construct allegories, Beckmann’s ambiguous and disturbing, Ziegler’s clear and reassuring. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit But together the shows form an inspiring allegory about artists confronted with a medium pushed to extremes who realized that they had to seek their own originality elsewhere. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman said the film "has the distinction of being the first dramatic comedy that’s an explicit - and provocative - allegory of the Age of Trump." 'Beatriz at Dinner' seen as tale for the Trump era 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Hers is a sensibility well suited to a post-Victorian allegory peopled by restless ghosts and pervaded with a supernatural hush. Review: ‘The Secret Garden,’ a Concert Revival in Which Sadness Morphs Into Joy 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z So instead I wrote about all those experiences through metaphor and allegory in my first novel, “A Once Crowded Sky,” which was all about superheroes except when it wasn’t. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z From Plato's allegory of the cave onward, the point of allegory has been to press-gang narrative into the service of exposition. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z The final film in his “Men of Power” tetralogy, this is an allegory of power and longing in the form of a head trip, as if Bruegel had made a music video for Richard Strauss. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z Yet all the cast’s resourcefulness isn’t enough to keep confusion and tedium at bay as this labored allegory unfolds in a painstaking parade of equivalencies. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In its allusion to a vital city built from the ruins of a once mighty empire, the garden is an obvious allegory for China. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z All of those other pieces are so important that it wouldn’t be a rich conversation to just reduce the show to an allegory of abortion rights. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The gallery calls the series “an allegory of being, time and memory.” In the galleries: Experimenting with a classical sensibility 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But perhaps it’s not wise to read the allegory of “Memory Rings” too literally. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Opera would never again gambol whimsically in the realms of easy allegory. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The love triangle becomes an allegory for an aesthetic debate about whether music or words are more important, on their own terms or when the two arts are combined. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z Directed by Kent Nicholson at the Sheen Center, this is an allegory in which Reeves is an Everyman — a 19-year-old mess with a lot to answer for. Review: ‘9 Circles,’ a Soldier’s Story (and the Damage Done) 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z What do we do with an ideal of urban design that celebrated a hierarchy of spaces as an allegory for social hierarchies, that cherished order and celebrated the beauty of conformity? Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The allegory on the way we consume women in society is interesting and that we can be commodities and stripped down to our physical worth and nothing deeper. Sebastian Stan on the twisted psyche of his "Fresh" role: "What he is seeking is a willing partner" 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Named Verity, the statue "modern allegory of truth and justice" was brought into town on the back of a lorry. VIDEO: 'Pregnant woman' arrives on lorry 2012-10-09T10:18:18Z Its too-muchness — the encyclopedic detail, the pseudoscholarly exposition, the soaring allegory, the punishing length — was as much a product of Tolkien’s literary sensibility as of Mr. Jackson’s commitment to cinematic maximalism. Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,’ by Peter Jackson 2012-12-13T18:58:19Z He said this science-fiction allegory was too anti-clerical even for the country’s Communist authorities, who, claiming he had exhausted the budget, shut down production. ?Hysterical Excess,? Andrzej Zulawski Films at BAMcin?matek 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z Other factors are more compelling: The plant and animal life in several images is based on religious allegory, not scientific knowledge. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z On the down side, the none-too-subtle messagemongering continues, with the emphasis of the allegory shifting from fundamentalism back to racial and religious discrimination. Critic’s Notebook: ‘True Blood,’ in a New Season, Seems to Renew Its Vows 2013-06-14T21:16:39Z There is enough emotion and suspense to hold your attention and an intimation of political allegory to give you something to think about. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z If Galliano had ever been tempted to ease up on his treatment while in detox, this dystopian allegory of extreme aversion therapy might get him back on track. John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab 2013-06-05T11:50:27Z Long, crowded and ambitious almost to the point of hubris, it reminded me a little of “The Poseidon Adventure” and other 1970s-vintage action allegories full of great actors struggling to survive. In ‘Snowpiercer,’ the Train Trip to End All Train Trips 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z A man cast as a pensive Joseph in a 1624-26 painting re-emerges later in a grand allegory, sporting a longer beard and a rug of chest hair. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Works in this style use scale, drama, allegory and figuration to engage emphatically and directly with a wide audience — usually on themes pertinent to national identity, grievance or ambition. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z And Lupin’s story is by no stretch a thorough or helpful examination of the illness, nor is its translation as an allegory easily understood, beyond the serious stigma Rowling mentions. J.K. Rowling’s allegory fail: Werewolves are not a useful metaphor for HIV/AIDS 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Over at the Arches on Tuesday and Wednesday, Alan Bissett writes and performs his monologue, The Red Hourglass, described as an "erotic allegory". What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-09T16:10:44Z With "The Gambler," Rogers hit a musical trifecta: a ghostly allegory built around trains, the draw of the cards, and the wisdom of the aged. Kenny Rogers, country music's "The Gambler," dead at 81 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Following intelligent debates about the nature of free will, "The Adjustment Bureau" ends in an overly simplistic, heavy-handed religious allegory that leaves you wondering, really? Capsule reviews: 'Rango,' 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011-03-03T20:03:25Z But like 17th-century anatomical drawings doubling as allegories, these bodies are also posed to teach contemporary morality lessons, which tend to focus on health. Exhibition Review: ‘Body Worlds: Pulse’ at Discovery Times Square 2013-05-09T20:27:43Z Alternatively, put aside those reservations and try to see the film as an allegory. Why Parasite misses the mark as a commentary on South Korean society 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Though it never becomes a neat allegory, beneath the fantastical elements is a blatant critique of anthropocentrism and state control, and a keen concern for the way power is wielded against the marginalized. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z A grown-up novel may make all its points with action and emotion, but some underlying force of fable or allegory, of educational purpose, seems necessary to illuminate a permanent book for younger readers. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Writer Anthony Jaswinski definitely favors biblical allegories, starting with the "7" in the title and ending with a religious experience at church. 'Vanishing on 7th Street': Folks go poof in end-of-days tale 2011-03-10T22:36:09Z Interestingly, James does not portray Marley directly in the novel; rather, he defines him only as the Singer, a spectral presence, as much an allegory or a symbol as a human being. Marlon James' powerful mix of influences and cultures lands him the Man Booker Prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z One of the most striking aspects of “Beasts,” given its pedigree, is the way it blends realism and fantasy, allegory and observation. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z “In addition to being an allegory for hygiene,” La Loca “manifests herself to ward off our fears or drive away disease,” Mr. Lind-Ramos wrote in an email. Putting Pencil to Paper, in Galleries and in the Voting Booth 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “The thing I worried about was that it would be taken as a documentary rather than as the allegory that it is.” Dr. Dean Brooks, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Doctor, Dies at 96 2013-05-31T23:57:18Z "Bad Jews" is a little too intent on keeping its audience giggling to fully realize the allegory on extremism inherent in its tale. Chutzpah and humor temper message 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Like the franchise’s previous allegories for marginalized experiences — the zombies of “Zombies” and werewolves of “Zombies 2” share hardships with Black and Indigenous Americans, respectively — this one is dubious at best. ‘Zombies 3’ Review: Take Me to Your Cheerleader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He talks about an allegory that takes place inside of a cave. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Racial allegories such as this are a staple of sci-fi and fantasy, and are often assumed to shine a light on modern-day society. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z “Animal Farm,” published in 1945, was Orwell’s opening fictional salvo in his battle for inconvenient truths, an allegory that suggests how the tyrannical one-party state Oceania in “1984” came into being. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z An allegory about authoritarianism, it eventually asks the invited actor to drink from a possibly poisoned goblet. Review: Writer of ‘Nassim’ Makes a New Best Friend at Every Show 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But using reductive caricatures — complete with phlegmatic performances — to send that message is perhaps not the best way, because it turns something with modern-day implications into distant allegory. 'The Notebook' is a chilling but reductive World War II tale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Both works ritualize "Macbeth" into a stylized allegory without sacrificing any of the visceral horror. 'Macbeth' succeeds in avoiding its onstage curse when it's on-screen 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z As the story narrows into a cat-and-mouse game played by Robert and Jorgen after an accident, "Terribly Happy" becomes an allegory of human frailty and corruption, of loneliness and the need to belong. 'Terribly Happy': a wickedly entertaining Danish thriller 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z When juxtaposed with flashbacks of the old Sweep raising Nan, these bits add a layer of beautifully bittersweet parenthood allegory to a tale that is both uplifting and heartbreaking. Kids’ Fantasy Novels That Make Heroes Out of Underdogs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It is also an allegory for the "forgetting" of colonising powers, the slave trade, eugenics and the historical horrors of science where black people were used for experimentation. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z But Sol’s story is much messier, much funnier and a lot more interesting than a one-to-one allegory, especially once he meets the sincere, luminescent Elsie. He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Not much is known about the meaning of the allegory. Masterpieces From Scotland Visit the Frick 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The lines between performance and reality begin to blur, as one might expect, but “Clytaemnestra” achieves something much sharper than simple allegory. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Scott praised it as “an allegory of powerlessness, revolt and liberation.” The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z It is chatty rather than polished and occasionally hokey, populated by entertaining allegories and regular flashes of humor. Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Very quickly, Schröder-Sonnenstern’s art evolved from sketchy drawings of mysteriously symbolic emblems — mixing disembodied eyes, stars, hearts and lines of radiation — to fully realized allegories rendered in rich colors on poster-size sheets of artist’s paper. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z The movie “is less an allegory of the American political process than a busy, foggy, mildly entertaining antidote to it,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in October. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z It may be an allegory or metaphor from the mind.” Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z In decades of weird, wonderful operas — sometimes plotted, sometimes esoteric allegories, sometimes abstract — Robert Ashley has changed what is possible with the form. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z The work is a not-at-all-subtle allegory that portrays Hitler and the Nazis as insane. Theater Review: ‘The Last Cyclist,’ at the West End Theater 2013-06-02T21:28:56Z Romero’s films always used, and continue to use, zombies for political allegory, and he’s right that TWD falls far short in that arena. The Walking Dead Watch: “Internment” 2013-11-11T03:01:06Z This visually transfixing film has the feel of an exhibition of Neshat's work whose figures have stirred to life to play out a tragic feminist allegory. 'Women Without Men': Forming a sisterhood during coup in 1953 Iran 2010-07-08T20:39:00Z I think the piece is this weird allegory for someone who has other, bigger dreams in life, but are kind of earthbound by their 9-to-5. Brontez Purnell Brings His Disparate Parts Back to the Dance Stage 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z I am reminded of a central allegory from the “The Walking Dead.” Lonnae O’Neal: Death of a Nation — white supremacy is slowly killing us 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z He thinks for a moment, then says, “ ‘Arlington’ is an allegory. Words Make a Room: The Plays of Enda Walsh 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Set on another planet, it is an allegory about the Stalin era that might also be applied, to a certain extent, to Putin's Russia. Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z As a child, he became obsessed with the musical “Sweeney Todd” — which perhaps provided an allegory for his invisible wounds, cuts hidden by the diverting melodies of outward appearances. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes a book sells itself: Oh, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel is a mournful allegory about artificial intelligence and the challenges of human connection? 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the music in 1928, saw it as an allegory of the artist’s destiny, an idea that has resonated with choreographers ever since. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z His last two masterly allegories were made outside Russia, both starring Ingmar Bergman's closest friend, Erland Josephson, as a troubled intellectual. The Andrei Tarkovsky Collection 2011-07-23T23:06:20Z The allegory was never subtle: the privileged classes had wisdom and goodness in abundance and alone possessed the tools to bash the Father of Lies and his acolytes, aka Harold Wilson and the socialists. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Then Lantern segues into Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of the Albert Camus novel “The Plague,” an allegory about the rise of fascism using an epidemic that hits a certain bull’s-eye in 2021. Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The allegory was not lost on me, nor was the intentional absurdity of the plot. Hating ‘Mother!’: Readers Speak Out 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z This book is not shy with its allegories. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z A story that many will want to read as a political allegory, though its filmmaker says that was not the intention. 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Valdez fictionalized the events, added music and dance, and infused the piece with allegory, including the symbolic character of El Pachuco, representing the Latino ethos. 'Zoot Suit': How Latino theater born in the farm fields changed L.A. theater forever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “The Ornithologist,” a new film from the Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues, is a religious allegory on queer themes, and one of the most disarming theologically inflected films since Luis Buñuel’s “The Milky Way.” The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z I'm sure there is an allegory here about Netflix being "too big to fail" ... but I have to wait till that movie is up on Instant Queue to find out what it is. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-07-16T13:01:00Z Stripped of animals, allegory and visual pleasure, this account is more plausible, though much darker. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Many of his movies are allegories on the absence of civilised behaviour in the conduct of war, exposing humankind's innate propensity towards violence and cruelty in the absence of a moral and spiritual code. Kaneto Shindo 2012-05-30T16:58:59Z Does anyone still need that allegory, between the reality of their frozen wages—assuming one’s lucky enough to have a job—and their climbing grocery/fuel/healthcare bills? The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace 2012-07-19T12:00:40Z “Mission Drift” is as thick on economic and historical data as it is on allegory, which could be tedious. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: The Empire Crumbles 2013-06-28T17:06:22Z Here, finally, we hear a Japanese girl speak—not as type, not as allegory, but as herself: “I’m sorry, do you mind going around it once more?” Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The most successful sci-fi race allegories keep it simple but keep it smart. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Her fate may be intended as an allegory. Review: ‘The Wasted Times,’ a Hopscotching Shanghai Crime Tale 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The distance between natural fact and artistic allegory shrinks. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Later works represent what look to be full-blown allegories delivered from somewhere beyond the pale of ordinary consciousness. Art Review: Picturing a Mind-Blowing World Made of Drugs 2010-10-07T21:19:00Z Scottish nationalists campaigning ahead of a referendum on independence next year have seized upon the book as an allegory for their struggle to break free of the UK - a theory the author dismisses. Asterix steps unwittingly into Scottish referendum debate 2013-10-24T12:46:13Z It’s an environmental catastrophe, and at times an allegory for these rural lives and the modern world. Review: ‘Uncertain,’ a One-of-a-Kind Texas Town on the Brink 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Along the way he takes in downbeat cityscapes patrolled by cop cars and envisions allegories of spiritual trauma in the Land of the Free. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z Some of the stories are clearer allegories for the plight of the United Arab Emirates’ migrant workers. Unnikrishnan’s ‘Temporary People’ captures the plight of workers in the UAE 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The novel is at its most heartfelt when it moves past allegory and symbolism and zeros in on the relationship between Josephine and her husband. Review: Helen Phillips Tweaks Corporate Culture in ‘The Beautiful Bureaucrat’ 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z “The Suit” is a personal/political allegory, and Brook and company thrive on the power of suggestion. ‘The Suit’: A fitting personal and political allegory 2014-03-21T23:14:10Z The story’s bleakness, its motifs of environmental destruction and the possibility of human extinction give it resonance, as does its allegory of the despair and vengefulness fostered by the Cultural Revolution. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z "It's about first love and your relationship with your parents and peers - and the supernatural. The forest has always been seen as an allegory for puberty, and that plays a big part in our production." Vampire play shocks at Royal Court 2013-12-06T12:51:58Z Some art historians think the children’s activities double as little allegories, each with a moral message. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z A group of Ukrainian and Polish socialists, living in refugee camps in post-war Europe, discovered a copy of the book in English and found it to be a near-perfect allegory of their own recent experience. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The way he was using this world to create a discourse to draw on these allegories of current day society was pretty unique and special. Zachary Quinto: 'Playing Spock was about cultivating an inner life' 2013-05-04T17:00:02Z Ian McEwan's novel Solar is an allegory of entropy and the death of the planet, an eco-comedy, a dark meditation on how human failings make it unlikely that we will act on global warming. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z Williams’s transformation continues the modern tradition of viewing “The Tempest” as a parable of colonization but reflects the allegory in American mirrors: the slave passage, Jim Crow, the blues, Holiday’s own troubled life. Bring on the ‘Stormy Weather’: In Series does Shakespeare by way of Billie Holiday 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Until then, the original stands as a stalwart example of allegory's power to inform and inspire instead of merely offering escape. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" remains one of the purest portrayals of fighting fascism on modern TV 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The past and present are a terrifying blur in “Transit,” a brilliant allegory set in France that opens amid wailing police sirens. ‘Transit’ Review: An Existential Puzzler With Jackboots and Terror 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Cold War is an inspired return to form – a chilling political allegory crossed with a submarine movie, with a classic monster for good measure. Doctor Who: Cold War – series 33, episode 8 2013-04-13T17:45:01Z This 17th-century Dutch master’s allegory of smell, “The Unconscious Patient,” was discovered only a year ago at an auction in New Jersey, after being found in someone’s basement. What Rembrandt Did as a Teenager: 4 of His ‘Sense’ Works Are Reunited 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “X-Men” devotees in particular are already primed by the inherently political nature of the comic series, whose mutants are seen as an allegory for marginalized groups in America, symbolism the Marvel creator Stan Lee welcomed. Podcasts About Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ Resonate With L.G.B.T.Q. Fans 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Still the demon as allegory construct falls apart quickly. Outcast: Walking Dead creator's exorcism drama doesn't possess spirit 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Whether "Local News" writer Sarah Naftalis intended Nandor's screw-up to function as a goofy allegory for current political events is inconsequential since this week's nuclear political development invites us to notice a few parallels. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z His first English-language film, “The Lobster,” was by turns ghastly and hilarious, a cruel dystopian allegory of discipline and desire. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Naysayers, meanwhile, said the comet allegory was lost on those who took it literally, and questioned why Mr. McKay hadn’t been more straightforward about global warming. Don’t Just Watch: Team Behind ‘Don’t Look Up’ Urges Climate Action 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “The Story of a Goat,” despite its close attention to land and livestock, is above all a political allegory. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z So why revive this clever, but now dated and tonally strident, allegory about Mideast political intransigence in 2012? Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z The form was strewn with pitfalls, among them a tendency to sermonize, a veering into allegory and a lack of plausibility. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Whether reality or allegory, that anecdote is telling: the team at Vintry is serious about collecting, not just selling, its wines and whiskeys. 2010-01-23T05:15:00Z It’s an allegory for the people we could become. Trevor Noah smacks down #BoycottStarWarsVII: “Stop complaining, racists — you had your ‘Star Wars’ movie already” 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But only when a date of composition or performance is firmly determined will it be possible to say whether any of the royal allegories might be valid. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z And yet Adams' allegories never trump the overall rabbit-eye view of the world. Lifeline's 'Watership' takes us down the rabbit hole 2011-05-10T21:49:17Z The story, she added, “deftly merges the familiar bumps and groans of the haunted-house movie with a potent allegory for the devastation of dementia.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and ‘Genius: Aretha’ 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Yet they are surprisingly effective as horror movie baddies for one simple reason: They’re highly flexible allegories for much deeper commentary about the horrors of human nature, war and even nature itself. Remembering George Romero, who turned B-movie horror into a place for thought 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The poem might be read as an allegory of addiction and recovery. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z The analogy struck me as novelesque: a study of this persistent human flaw – arrogance masquerading as helpfulness – could be a personal story that also functioned as allegory. Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible – Guardian book club 2013-05-11T07:31:38Z As a child hearing of Marley's shooting, he understood "if he could get shot, then anybody could be," while now he sees the incident as "allegory — we're descending into chaos in the country." Marlon James' views of a crime in 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Or so it seems; the allegory is properly mysterious. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z At the time, critics and pundits saw it as an allegory for the Bush presidency and a commentary on the war on terror. Perspective | ‘The Dark Knight’ and Heath Ledger’s Joker were a prophecy of our troll culture 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z That ill-conceived story conflated cute humor and stuffed animals for a cringe-inducing allegory about the Holocaust. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “It’s more controversial and complex than that. Many of these paintings offer allegories and commentary that is not just about what is shown on the surface.” Not Just Propaganda: A New View of Soviet Artists 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z What I was most conscious of was the hard-working ingenuity of a director and his creative team trying to elicit sparks from a cumbersome, ice-cold allegory. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Three expert calligraphers took turns painting on Zhang’s skin over the course of a single day, their precise, delicate brushstrokes slowly blackening each facial feature with a different allegory. "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-16T05:00:00Z “It’s a boy’s adventure wrapped in a detective story tucked inside a nuclear allegory surrounded by a dystopian fable.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Akira' 2011-03-28T21:56:05Z The story also converts its magical realism into lyrical allegory and raises poignant questions about the nature of refugee identity. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z One could read as an allegory for the Realist novel. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z Lapotin talks in terms of "finding ways to stay somewhere in the dead zone between really aestheticised genres" and describes Returnal as "an allegory or metaphor for cyclical things that happen in nature". New band of the day ? No 886: Oneohtrix Point Never 2010-10-13T16:44:00Z The story, which is actually an allegory on death and the afterlife, is about a dog, Jennie, who leaves home because she is bored with having everything. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z He is admired for the delicacy and poetry of his movies, which are replete with mystery and allegory. Peter Bradshaw on Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof 2011-02-02T22:31:01Z Both books operate on at least two levels — as thrilling tales and elusive allegories. Review: ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’? Nothing to Be Scared Of 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z There are many ambiguities and no simple explanation: is it a religious allegory, of Old Testament and New, Jewish and Christian? In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z This visually transfixing film, which originated as a video installation, has the feel of an exhibition of Ms. Neshat’s work whose figures have stirred to life to play out a tragic feminist allegory. | 'Women Without Men': From Shirin Neshat, Sisterhood Found During a Coup 2010-05-13T23:04:00Z Although he would later insist that “High Noon” was an allegory for the blacklist, it was not viewed as such by others involved in the film. Refugees and free speech: How Hollywood classics 'Casablanca' and 'High Noon' were shaped by politics 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Like “Dreams for Sale,” it’s the story of a scam, but it quickly moves beyond that into a realm of creepy fantasy and poisoned allegory. Japan Cuts Features Melancholy Films at Japan Society 2013-07-13T00:01:00Z Her public defender, Yali Corea-Levy, sees their story as an allegory of today’s San Francisco, where homeless people congregate in the shadow of city hall, and encampments sprawl along sidewalks in gentrifying neighborhoods. She was a crack addict. He was a rising political star. Then their worlds collided 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Once the novel arrived, allegory had to go underground. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z “Compliance” can certainly be read as an allegory on blind allegiance to authority and the diffusion of responsibility. ‘Compliance’ Raises Questions About Human Behavior 2012-08-10T21:29:29Z Plato's allegory of the cave has spawned many creative explorations, right up to Neo and his excellent adventures in "The Matrix." Vitalist manages to shed light on a heavy European drama 2011-05-18T21:56:00Z The novel’s allegory feels strongest in chapters about the policing of class borders. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z This movie almost works as allegory for life beyond prison, but to Mr. Audiard power is power. Six French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The South African burst on the scene a little more than five years ago with “District 9,” a movie that was both a brilliant sci-fi tale and a sharp allegory of apartheid-era South Africa. 'Chappie': Who do so many sci-fi helmers lose heat on their fastball? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z A must-watch because… A poetic allegory for the war between traditional and modern agriculture that doesn’t hit you over the head. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Now they are joined by the allegory of sight, on loan from Museum De Lakenhal in the Dutch city of Leiden, Rembrandt’s hometown. What Rembrandt Did as a Teenager: 4 of His ‘Sense’ Works Are Reunited 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Each box contained props Ms. Glynn described as tools for Borgesian allegory: a papier-mâché dagger, a bleeding heart, a paper rose. The Elite Browse and Forage at Frieze Art Fair 2013-05-10T21:06:57Z But the joys and wonders of “Win It All” don’t depend solely on its aspects of personal or psychological allegory—in fact, those elements are mere sidebars and spinoffs of its mighty central strength. “Win It All” and the Mighty Gambles of Joe Swanberg’s Moviemaking 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Dante's Divine Comedy was a religious allegory about man's journey towards Godliness and salvation, yet he was branded a heretic because he questioned the pope's pursuit of secular power. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Then he labored over the writing, planning and financing of “Downsizing,” an ambitious overpopulation allegory with elements of science fiction. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z The final shot, taking place some time after the main action, seeks a character rather than follows one and is shamelessly on the nose in the allegory department. ‘Sunset’ Review: Discovering a Dark Past and a Cataclysmic Future 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Then comes the tale, a thin allegory about what happens to a village when the moon disappears. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He does so in Act III, Scene 2, in a series of lengthy onstage composition lessons that serve as a thinly disguised allegory for Wagner's self-image, as aesthetic genius and great master all in one. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z The second idea is to turn “The Cured” into a sort of Irish Republican Army allegory. Review: ‘The Cured,’ in Which Former Zombies Turn to New Terrorism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Shifting from whimsical comedy to light satire to lumpy allegory, it quickly strips its gears and stops cold. Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z As for why he’s asking viewers to seek clarity in the rear-view mirror, Simon said that history provides a sturdy, well-vetted foundation on which to build a meaningful allegory. Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The problem, in “The Changeling,” is that LaValle sometimes skywrites his main themes so that no one will miss them — he explains his own allegory, essentially, in real time. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The production is best when it wanders off the road of straightforward political allegory into blissfully poisoned musical sequences in which the cast delivers rap numbers in the style of a close-harmony glee club. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z His encounters with a shamed local family provide a story that touches on both farce and allegory. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z The 1966 Czech film "A Report on the Party and the Guests" is a dark satirical political allegory about government control run amok that was banned upon its release. Sex ed films through history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Labaki’s decision not to name the country, which is assumed to be Lebanon, suggests that she conceived “Where Do We Go Now?” as an all-encompassing comic allegory about religious intolerance and male belligerence. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z A Pied Piper story that doubles as a boldfaced allegory about class and community, “Where We Stand” is rich in its language but vague about what it truly wants to say. ‘Where We Stand’ Review: Gifts are Given, but at What Cost? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z He keeps punching other policemen, and the whole thing is an incredibly clunky allegory for racism. ‘A steampunk fever dream’: why Carnival Row is not the new Game of Thrones 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z An allegory about Washington dysfunction, or a condemnation of political greed? 'House of Cards' Knows Exactly What It Is 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z This genre of paintings didn’t really depict history as we think of it today, but rather subject matter that was taught as history in the 17th century: Old Testament stories, mythology and allegory. A Homecoming for Dutch Masters, Thanks to an American Billionaire 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z But these conclusions hardly matter in a deeply contrived world of nonspecific female characters, allowing even for the freedoms of allegory. ‘House of Darkness’ Review: If You Prick Them, Do Bros Not Bleed? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z I was trying to find poetic allegories for silence and that, of course, leads to a formal restraint. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The ritualistic account of the Exodus or of Esther’s rescue of her people becomes allegory, full of color, costume and personal experience. Exhibition Review: ?Journey Through Jewish Worlds,? at Yeshiva University Museum 2010-06-25T23:36:00Z Maybe that’s the key to a good allegory: You feel the ideas seeping into your skin rather than conking you on the head. Review: Alluring Embrace of the Serpent Explores the Mysteries of the Amazon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z While somewhat on the nose as allegory, the movie deftly illustrates that a culture of collaboration — whether in Bratislava in the 1980s or, indeed, any political or workplace context — requires active participation, even if subconscious. Review: ‘The Teacher,’ a Classroom Satire on Political Corruption 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z If this sounds like an allegory of the long troubles of McCabe’s native island, that’s no accident, and in “Goodbye Mr. Rat” he states his case a wee bit more directly. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects. | 'Haywire': Steven Soderbergh?s ?Haywire? With Gina Carano - Review 2012-01-19T16:57:52Z In earlier days, before niche marketing etched out great generational divides in entertainment, the allegories were for everyone. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z In the world of podcasts about “X-Men,” flitting from allegories for inequity to “The Real Housewives” is almost effortless. Podcasts About Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ Resonate With L.G.B.T.Q. Fans 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Twenty years later, the satire, and the political allegory, seem much darker and deeper. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Nearly 10 years after the film’s debut, its allegory remains relevant given the refugee crises. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Legends of the Lost With Megan Fox’ and ‘District 9’ 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z You might read it as an allegory about the art of sculpture: To sculpt is to compress as much as possible into a desired shape. Charles Ray at Matthew Marks 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Whether Hitchcock intended any particular allegory in that scene — he claimed the film was intended purely as an entertainment — it effectively dramatizes the idea that national myths are not to be looked at too closely. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “Billions” is a show in love with its allegories, and most of the action in “Risk Management” can be explained by three of them: ‘Billions’ Season 2 Premiere: Neanderthals 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z She allows a credible love story to peek out through the elaborate trappings of allegory and satire. Review: In ‘The Lobster,’ Colin Farrell Plays a Divorced Man in a Loner-Hating Society 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z For me, it’s an allegory of what people are capable of doing. Julie Delpy, Science-Fiction Filmmaker? It’s True 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In Herzog’s allegory about man dominating nature, the title character forces Indians to drag a whole steamship over mud, mountains and jungle into Iquitos. Iquitos, Peru: Wet and Wild 2013-09-13T17:49:30Z But if racism is the insistence on imagining a code where none exists, then the failure of “Westworld” ’s allegory is its choice to print the legend. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Though we never see him, his haunting of the Charles family becomes all too real, making the family’s battles over a piano a deeper allegory of race, property and American history. 11 Ways I Escaped Reality This Year 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Unless I'm way off base, he's also a fan of French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Innocence," a creepy girls'-school allegory with some strikingly similar ingredients that was among the ignored delights of the last decade. The twisted, stupid brilliance of "Sucker Punch" 2011-03-25T01:01:00Z The famed children’s book is, of course, an allegory for the selfish way in which humanity treats the environment. Explaining the Many References in the Movie 'mother!' 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z And so, a fairly predictable opening spins quickly into a complex metaphysical inquiry that is also a poignant social allegory — as much “Twin Peaks” as “True Detective.” ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “Don’t Look Up” fails as a climate change allegory, because climate change resists metaphor. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z As political allegories go, “The Platform” ranks somewhere between “Animal Farm” and a late-period “South Park” episode on the subtlety scale. ‘The Platform’ Review: An Accidentally Timely Political Allegory 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z But Anna keeps one literary treasure for herself: a comic allegory called “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” written more than a thousand years earlier by the Greek writer Antonius Diogenes. Review | Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z “The Innocents” is a work of lyrical naturalism dressed as an allegory. Review | In Michael Crummey’s ‘The Innocents,’ two orphans in a remote corner of the world learn to survive 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Binding “The Lego Movie” together is a “Matrix”-like conceit that turns the whole thing into an allegory about the nature of creativity and the meaning of amusement. Movie Review: ‘The Lego Movie’ Toys With Thinking Outside the Manual 2014-02-06T13:00:01Z It was both entertaining ditty and allegory for something as profound as peace and harmony. Pure joy in toe shoes: Tiler Peck and the radiant dancing of 'BalletNow' 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z In the summer of 2021, when I joined the Sea Clowns again for a month, they were producing a new show based on Plato’s allegory of the cave. Fragile, Delicate, Free: Glimpses of Circus Life, at Sea 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Gatiss recognises that Wells was writing an allegory of imperialism: Bedford seeks to colonise the moon and plunder it for its vast deposits of gold, while Cavor, a naive man of science, seeks only knowledge. Mark Gatiss: Rocket man 2010-10-11T20:30:00Z Girls, particularly, were little more than dull collections of moral qualities, pawns in authors’ lofty allegories.” ‘Little Women’ Marches On: Fans Celebrate the Novel’s 150th Anniversary 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Here the term green carries double meaning as both visual descriptive and allegory. Television Review: A Fantasy World of Strange Feuding Kingdoms 2011-04-14T21:32:03Z A game, an allegory, a screed and an exercise in behavioral economics, it had a lot going on, probably too much, which may have been the point. In These Immersive Shows, the Jury Is In (Your Home) 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z You might therefore conclude that Spasojevic is not very good at cinematic allegory. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z Some critics saw Mr. Yehoshua’s novels and short stories as allegories for his jaundiced view of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The dancers filled and emptied the cavernous space with different props and projection surfaces in an allegory of the messes of human history, constantly torn down and made anew. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Literature that tells lies is not worth the paper it is written on, but a lie is not the same as a fantasy, an invention, an allegory, a myth, a dream. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z The novel is a leviathan of a read, thick with allegory, Scripture and some of the most poetic and dense writing in the English language. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z Sís, who repeatedly has used birds as a symbol in his artwork, was drawn to the figure and to the allegory. 'The Conference of the Birds': reviving a 12th-century Persian epic 2011-11-16T22:53:03Z Pro-Kremlin activists accused him of promoting cannibalism and tried to ban his novella “Nastya,” a grisly allegory about a girl who is cooked and eaten by her family. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The movie is meant to double as an allegory “for what we do to girls.” A Night Out With Rose McGowan, Now Behind the Camera 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Sci-fi lives in abstraction and allegory, and this approach allowed them to deliver criticisms of racism and prejudice into US households. Bleep me up Scotty: why is sci-fi suddenly so sweary? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z And then, of course, if a person interprets it as an adolescent experience or a Christian allegory, you can’t tell them they didn’t. “Come for the Love Story, Stay for the War”: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-22T13:00:05Z Even if you have no knowledge of Mr. Albee’s later, illustrious career, you’ll still find much to savor and shiver over in this allegory of pushing the elderly into the arms of death. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z A musical adaptation of the revered Tim Burton film, and maybe also a chilling allegory about the perils of remodeling, this antic ghost story arrives on Broadway. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Shadyside and Sunnyvale represent opposite poles, but “Fear Street” isn’t an allegory about suburban privilege dressed up in blood and guts. ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy Review: Carnage and Close Calls 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Also here is a peculiar late work, “The Genius of Castiglione,” that merges allegory and autobiography. Art in Review: GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE 2012-06-28T19:45:37Z At any rate, this is a brilliant and troubling film, sometimes hard as ice and sometimes emotionally wrenching, which could only have been made in this moment yet reaches for timeless allegory. "Parasite": A prickly, disturbing class-war thriller — and a signature film of 2019 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z King had planned to take Holy Orders, and Milton uses pastoral allegory in the religious context, too. Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z There is an obvious political allegory here, and it’s possible that “Straw Dogs” will find a cult following among frustrated Democrats going into the next electoral cycle. | 'Straw Dogs': A Remake of ?Straw Dogs,? by Rod Lurie - Review 2011-09-15T22:30:47Z Are his paintings allegories, or entertainments, or something more – how shall we say this – practical? Botticelli's love drug 2010-05-28T09:31:00Z On a deeper level it is a searching, somewhat ham-handed allegory of American hubris in the 21st century and a bleak assessment of the country’s wobbly moral compass. Movie Review: ‘At Any Price,’ Directed by Ramin Bahrani 2013-04-23T22:09:27Z After the success of The Naked Island, Shindo changed gear again: no more social dramas or stylised allegories but racy horror movies. Kaneto Shindo – master of Japanese cinema 2012-06-22T21:55:17Z In the best segments, the emergency functions as a kind of allegory, illuminating something about the characters called to handle it, a technique Minear practiced on shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel.” When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z This supernatural environment allowed “allegories of alternatives to the world we know”. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Written for an anthology of anti-racist writing, it is a serviceable allegory of a certain shunning of the macabre imagination of James Herbert . James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z But where those other programs often coat their real-world commentary in layers of allegory, “Black Lightning” takes on issues of race and social justice directly and unambiguously. On ‘Black Lightning,’ a Superhero Takes On Race, Justice and the Real World 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z There is no allegory crude enough to create and capture the counterfactual universe we are living in right now, with Trump and how we got here. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an argument for artistic freedom. New & Noteworthy, From Beautiful Crime to Essays on Identity 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Sometimes it's historical allegory, as with this show, sometimes it's just straight journalism. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z An allegory about political power and the fall of empires, “The Tower” was written in the aftermath of World War I, although Hofmannsthal continued to work on it for nearly a decade. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z With its scenes of brave men and women storming the Tuileries, it was a thinly veiled allegory of the Russian Revolution. Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “The Crucible,” of course, is an allegory, the story of the red-baiting McCarthy era as viewed through the prism of the Salem witch trials. ‘The Crucible’ as you’ve never seen it 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z These are archetypal stories and allegories of how we interact with life, told through the eyes of a child. Kurt Weill’s Music for a Magical Dance, Lost and Now Found 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The allegory of Cuba’s abandoned arts campus remains with the visitor long after viewing the exhibition. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But it is at once an intense evocation of real flesh and natural abundance, and an allegory of the cosmos. David Mach, Ed Ruscha and Leonardo da Vinci ? the week in art 2011-07-29T08:00:00Z For some locals, the reincarnation is more an allegory about gentrification and the lost soul of Capitol Hill. The complicated tale of the new Canterbury Ale House 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Fenton uses an optical effect to communicate what earlier artists did through allegory. The dark side of the fruit: why still life began to rot in the 19th century 2012-02-13T14:25:21Z It's a powerful allegory, a tale for our times. Rio's first favela cinema brings normality to a once-brutal district 2012-10-09T16:45:59Z Many took it for granted that Monsters is an allegory about immigration, but this idea hadn't occurred to the director. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z “To see this epic allegory about race is interesting,” says Touré. Sorry to Bother You: why Boots Riley’s surreal race allegory is this year’s Get Out 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Of course, in the great Iranian mystical tradition, it is also an allegory of the soul's search for God. Kamin Mohammadi's top 10 Iranian books 2011-07-20T11:07:13Z In Italy, the trilogy is sometimes classified as an allegory for children. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 – review 2013-05-29T13:42:12Z An airline ticket counter representative with a lot of questions is meant to evoke the Inquisition; the big city to which Linda eventually moves is, in the allegory, assimilation. Review: An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “But I don’t want you to say that was in my mind when I wrote the book, because I’m not a person who wants to write allegory like ‘Animal Farm’ or ‘1984.’ Life Is Imitating Stephen King’s Art, and That Scares Him 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z If "Rise" can be seen as an allegory of the struggles of people of color. Hollywood's summer of revolution 2011-09-14T18:01:00Z New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson praised her “fire and skill” in the powerful Miller morality play that many have read as an allegory against the McCarthyite anti-communist witch hunts of the day. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Kadare has commented on his native tongue’s unique affinities with classical Greek, and in the past he used allegory and myth to veil meaning and evade censorship. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But not every scary story is an allegory. ‘The Terror’ Summons the Ghosts of a Real-Life Horror Story 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, one of them is "Stalker," Andrei Tarkovsky's slow and enigmatic 1979 science fiction allegory, the subject of Mr. Dyer's new book "Zona." ArtsBeat: Telluride Film Festival: Geoff Dyer, Tarkovsky's 'Stalker,' Chaplin and More 2012-09-02T21:04:35Z An apparent allegory about the woes of Europe, the film follows a crew of low-level astronauts stranded on the wrong planet. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z The film's been considered "an allegory for the age of Barack Obama, another leader who has been celebrated, venerated, lionised for his ability, in challenging times, to move people with his words". What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z Such nomenclature is an example of Ms. Lavery’s tendency to gild the funereal lily, as is beginning the play with Kali and Todd’s just having seen “The Seventh Seal,” Bergman’s medieval allegory of human mortality. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z The allegory of inner versus outer beauty is complicated by Stacey’s oddness — her thematically resonant hobby is taxidermy, in which she enshrines outer beauty by replacing animals’ insides with Styrofoam. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ Review: 7 Tricks, 1 Treat 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z The story provides an allegory for the destructive traits exhibited by the men in this moody novel, and for the expectation that the women be the ones to offer remedy. Down on the Black Bayou, a Family History Repeats Itself 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z But I don’t want to risk reducing the plenitude of this novel to allegory: It is rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow. Dealmakers and Wanderers: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In a way, the book is just an allegory about the loneliness of business travel. “A folk tale, but with swearing”: Drew Magary on his debut novel “The Hike” 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Olbermann ranted with characteristic sarcasm and brio about all kinds of things, but the subjects he chose seemed also to serve as allegories for his own experiences as a cable star turned celebrity flameout. The TV Watch: Keith Olbermann’s Show Has Its Debut on ESPN2 2013-08-27T21:44:31Z Both movies become tragedies, but Bong’s feels like an allegory where Loach’s feels like activism. ‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Human Toll of That One-Click Buy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z They quickly become fascinated by Greek myths and work together to produce a literary magazine full of allegory, truth and creativity. The cultured classes | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-19T20:30:00Z To be fair, it’s not easy to do full justice to Mozart’s allegory on the human quest for balance and enlightenment, with its elements of lowbrow humor, fairy-tale magic and spoken theater mixed in. Mozart's ‘Die Zauberflöte’ at the Met Opera 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In a way, in “The Age of Innocence,” Edith Wharton wrote an allegory of this very process: of the way stories acquire new meanings over time. The Age of ‘The Age of Innocence’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z It was, said Cleave, "a wholly original allegory of our struggle to find identity." Desmond Elliott shortlist announced 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The film, he wrote, “is nothing less than a found epic, a real-life environmental allegory and, not least, a stinging comedy about the age-old problem of inconsiderate neighbors.” How ‘Honeyland’ Became an Oscar Game Changer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z While the film "begins with surprising elegance," Harper "seems less interested in allegory than in monotonous, conventional goosing, the kind that involves flickering lights and a creaky rocking chair." 'Woman in Black 2' haunted by horror cliches, reviews say 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z I wanted to write the end of our Midgard – but not to write an allegory or a sermon. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z Broadly speaking, Whitehead and Hamid are working in the tradition of allegory. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Smiley is a master storyteller, with a penchant for turning archetypal allegories into seemingly straightforward, contemporary narratives. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The upcoming monster movie “Colossal,” starring Anne Hathaway, uses the imagery from classic kaiju monster movies — personified by Godzilla and his outsize brethren — as an allegory to explore addiction, sexism and self-definition. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Scott’s take: “The film isn’t so much an allegory or fantasy as a witty philosophical speculation on some elemental human issues,” Scott wrote. The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z “It’s not mythological nor an allegory. It’s erotic. That was not acceptable, because she saw herself as this enlightened empress.” 10 things you may not know about Catherine the Great 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The final act takes place on the shores of what seems to be an uncharted desert isle, where the survivors obligingly act out an allegory about power and human nature. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z In 1988, he made To Shoot Without Shooting, a co-production with Shanghai Animation Film Studio, in which an ambitious Chinese archer's quest for perfection presents an allegory for the nuclear arms race. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z I’m not writing allegory either, but I live in these times, and it’s inevitable that they’re going to have some influence on me. George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z On occasion ugly, often difficult, and utterly real, these quasi-autobiographies feel like high-wire storytelling without the safety net of metaphor or allegory – and with all the danger and immediacy of stakes the comparison implies. Facing facts: how memoir movies are finally showing the ugly truth 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z But I started imagining the work as a different allegory: one about the pressure to conform to shallow trends in contemporary dance. Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z What We Do in the Shadows is really an allegory about the treatment of immigrants. Taika Waititi: 'You don't want to be directing kids with a swastika on your arm' 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z They are the possibilities of stories, rather than illustrations, allegories or history paintings. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z “It’s an allegory about the distribution of wealth, which is a universal debate and a debate that’s been going on for as long as people have been around,” he told the Guardian. What Netflix's The Platform tells us about humanity in the coronavirus era 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z As a horror allegory on aging, “The Amusement Park” is worse than scary. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z He casts this as ancient wisdom, delivered through religious allegories and fairy tales which contain truth, he says, that modern society has forgotten. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “This movie is an allegory for today’s regime,” wrote a user calling himself Andrew Usac, “in which officials are going crazy from greed, measuring themselves with yachts, cars and villas.” Russian Comedy Plays on YouTube, Not in Movie Theaters, to Avoid Censors 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It was a timeless allegory of freedom, ethics and human nature. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The chapel’s subject, the wanderings of the three wise men and their epiphany, is an allegory for converts to Catholicism who find salvation through Christ. In Transit: New Roman Museum Highlights Baroque Church 2011-02-09T11:00:34Z "Isn't it blindingly obvious from the title that this is a third-rate allegory?" The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-03-10T20:00:01Z George Orwell neither fooled anybody, nor tried to, with his meticulous allegory of Stalin's Russia, Animal Farm. Culture flash: fallen dictators 2011-08-24T21:31:01Z Refreshingly, the novel disregards the predilections of contemporary literary fiction and instead veers toward allegory. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z A number called “I Like to Lead,” in which Sophia Loren, Grant’s co-star in the 1958 movie “Houseboat,” slaps him around in an allegory of female domination, is incoherent. Review: In ‘Flying Over Sunset,’ Getting High With the Stars 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z What follows is difficult to classify generically: It is too carefully distanced to be a melodrama, too personally specific to stand as a civil-rights allegory. 'In the Family': Insightful look at one family's transformation 2012-10-04T20:02:07Z The story is, in part, an allegory for the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States during World War II — where Akira represents the bomb and Tetsuo is the dreaded next calamity. Why the pioneering Japanese anime ‘Akira’ is still relevant 30 years later 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The Mughal garden is a highly symbolic space shaped by its prescribed layout, features and allegories. The real magic of the Taj Mahal 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Once there, one of the more resonant readings, as the critic Andrea Long Chu has explained, is that “The Matrix” has been embraced by trans women as an allegory for gender transition. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z More than 60 years later, the lamenting cries of Coleman’s alto sax and Don Cherry’s pocket trumpet, in unison, are an allegory for the disillusionment we all feel. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Considered as an alien-invasion science-fiction allegory, it’s about as deep as the dimple on Mr. Eckhart’s chin, and as lean and square as his jaw. | 'Battle: Los Angeles': City of Angels Resists Becoming City of Aliens (the Outer-Space Type) 2011-03-11T00:59:25Z “The Fool” wraps its Hobbesian vision of squalor around a fable worthy of Frank Capra, but twisted to suggest a cruel inversion of Capra’s inspirational allegories of humble Everymen crusading for justice and democratic ideals. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z These are separated by two metal partitions of the sort you see between men’s room urinals, making the whole thing a suave allegory of male privilege. NADA Art Fair Offers the Wacky and the Political, Plus Basketball 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z I once saw their flickering shapes crossing the commentator on a live TV broadcast of the shelling of Beirut, an unavoidable allegory about different ways of being alive. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z Instead, it went into making “Carnival Row” as thoroughgoing an allegory as possible for current tensions over race and immigration. Review: Orlando Bloom Among the Immigrant Beasts in ‘Carnival Row’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z That brings us to the premise of “Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay’s end-of-the-world comedy that he has said is an allegory for inaction on global warming. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Yes, it's a heavy-handed allegory or fairy tale about a weaponized human being, raised in the wild and then unleashed against the security superstate as an avenging angel. "Hanna": A ruthless, arty "Sucker Punch" 2011-04-07T20:03:00Z After Kenner shares his chance discovery of Jorge Luis Borges’s “Labyrinths,” Davenport urges his friend to read Eudora Welty and “the finest allegory I know of in modern times”: Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” Review | The most intellectually exhilarating work of the year 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s somewhat embarrassing, in the twenty-first century, to produce an allegory on any subject; the technique strikes us as both antique and naïve. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Alan’s dreamlike story unfolds to become an emotionally stirring allegory about the frustrations of middle-class Americans coping with unemployment and diminished dreams in a newly globalized world. Michiko Kakutani’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z Here is the allegory of the chokehold of marketing. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The answers are both obvious and obscure, in the style of early absurdist domestic portraits by Edward Albee, though Mr. Calvani has added his own level of economic allegory. Theater Review: ‘AdA,’ Plays by Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani at La MaMa 2012-10-05T22:24:29Z I was curious to see how the piece worked as one big allegory, and asked Mr. Watt to walk me through the 30 characters. Music: The Midlife Thing, the Nightmare Thing 2011-02-24T21:48:04Z Animals were used as political allegories and stand-in figures for political criticism during periods of repression. Review | Cute puppies and octopus sex: A Japanese art exhibition reveals our fascination with animals 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s an allegory for British postwar culture — but also a philosophical study of spectacle and death, and a detective story. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The second is as a movie, an elegant and intelligent contribution to the flourishing genre of dystopian allegory. ‘Citizenfour,’ a Documentary About Edward J. Snowden 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Like the other vampire shows, “Let the Right One In” is finally an allegory about finding your family, and its strong ensemble gives it the edge. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The bird may not be an allegory of goodness, or mercy, love or prudence, but owls are wise, and this one has its eyes open. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z While the subjects are generic, the play of forms is terrifically lively, calling to mind early-20th-century Cubism and the compacted allegories of Max Beckmann. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In salon-style, floor-to-ceiling hangings you will find every conceivable kind of two-dimensional creativity: Minimalist monochromes; Color Field stained canvases; finely and loosely grained patterning; cartoon allegories and sensitively observed still lifes. Art In Review: BRUCENNIAL 2012 2012-03-01T22:54:38Z It's all an allegory to be exploring the way we view love, the way we think about love. "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Here are the thumbnail diagrams of deliberately hazy allegories. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z The stapled links that at first glance look like decorations for a kiddie party on closer inspection reveal images of naked bodies, an allegory for human connection, Mr. LaChapelle said. David LaChapelle: An Unexpected Life 2011-05-27T19:05:28Z The original story is a fairy tale; as staged at Bard by Thaddeus Strassberger, it was an allegory about the suppression of female desire. ‘The Demon’ Review: Obsession and Seduction 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Let’s see if we can track the allegory here — or if there’s much of an allegory to track. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Wolf in Cheap Clothing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But much deeper and more interesting are the medieval allegories that use chess to reinforce societal obligations and ties between citizens. In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z “Joker,” in particular, asked to be interpreted as an allegory of white male anger even as it carefully tried to sand away the racist and misogynist implications of its premise. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Installed thematically, the galleries include delirious landscapes, quiet domestic scenes, hallucinatory dream images and cross-cultural allegories from ancient Greece and Mesoamerica. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The story was an allegory about how persistently disobeying one's mother will lead to lifelong heartache. Making sense of a senseless world: How children's books can mitigate the horror around us 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The film isn’t so much an allegory or fantasy as a witty philosophical speculation on some elemental human issues. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z This is a common cinematic allegory used to depict practices of colonialism that tie military offenses tightly with the motivations of profiteering international corporations. "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z His poem to autumn is, no doubt, an allegory for life’s brevity, especially his own, but it applies as well and more literally to the vegetable garden. Monticello’s ode to autumn In a way, the play looks back to Plato's allegory of the cave, to Prospero in The Tempest, and forwards, by three centuries, to Pirandello's fascination with the shifting boundaries between art and reality. The Illusion – review 2012-08-27T17:00:14Z As befits this allegory, the prose is sensuous. A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But the allegory here is the Bush dynasty and the ties that bind and estrange the generations in that Shakespearean knot of tension so familiar to higher pedigree crime drama. "Blue Bloods" a welcome return for Tom Selleck 2010-09-24T06:30:00Z But where film encourages realism, theater can embrace allegory and abstraction. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z He believes that “The Chemical Wedding” is not an occult allegory, as many modern readers assume. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Is it all an elaborate Iraq war allegory? Can you decipher Animal Collective's visual album ODDSAC? 2010-05-10T10:21:00Z An allegory and satirization of Soviet Communism, “Animal Farm” is about a group of animals who take over a farm after ousting their human master. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Set in the near future, “Dead Zone,” from the director Hank Braxtan, is a pandemic allegory nestled in a zombie thriller. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It's a pleasant, light morality tale, full of potential to prompt children to ask questions about growing up, and surely all the whimsical, unexplained elements are allegories or allusions. Comics: 'Return of the Dapper Men,' 'Legends of the Mouse Guard' 2011-01-05T19:43:57Z Today, the play is not just an allegory. 'Inherit the Wind' airs current creationism debate 2011-09-09T23:16:04Z The novel works so effectively because it’s an allegory that constantly resists the predictable messaging of allegory. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “Holy Motors”: French filmmaker Leos Carax’s allegory about our relationship with film opens Friday at the Varsity Theatre. Weekend Preview: Parades, crafts and a walk in the woods 2012-11-21T20:48:39Z In 1894, Austria’s Ministry of Education commissioned Klimt to paint allegories representing the disciplines of Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence, expecting he’d use the same traditional mural style that he was known for around Vienna. Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt. Not everyone is happy about it. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z This narrative worked effectively — if accidentally — as an allegory for the increasingly technocratic nature of studio filmmaking in the aftermath of the New Hollywood. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In fact, it’s an allegory that precisely captures the essence of the band and its followers. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a campus comedy stapled to a family drama and tied up with a ribbon of allegory. ‘White Noise’ Review: Toxic Events, Airborne and Domestic 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Given the movie’s U-turn into allegory, maybe he’s supposed to be a punk Jesus. | 'Hesher': Burn This, Curse That, Wreak Your Havoc 2011-05-12T20:35:27Z It is a way of making our metaphors concrete, and it shades into myth in one direction, allegory in another. Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Departing from history, presumably, but leaning into metaphor and allegory, Yevgenia can forecast the future. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition, which is organized chronologically, looks at how the artist’s work evolved throughout his career, and how he turned in his later years toward allegory and myth. Post-Pop Art in Shanghai and Psychedelia in Liverpool: Global Arts Guide 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z And if we wanted to waste six years in a Judeo-Christian allegory, we would've just followed a Jehovah's Witness home a long time ago. Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z This portrait of five talented women who were among the first to receive fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute — including the poets Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton — doubles as an allegory of female ambition. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z By setting his production in the 1930s, Mr. Edelson plans to let the allegory speak for itself. ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Returns With Its Brazen Politics Intact 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Despite the grittiness of its subject, “One Arm,” as a story, is essentially a lyrical allegory in which the third-person narrative is as dominant as that in a Grimm’s fairy tale. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z Add that it was sold as recently as last year by Sotheby’s in Florence for the equivalent of £101,000, and that really left the allegories no hope of finding takers. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z The movie is not substantially about Nazi Germany but uses it as an allegory for current-day expressions and politics of hatred. Springtime for Nazis: How the Satire of “Jojo Rabbit” Backfires 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Moreover, the sexual scenes with Boris are quite erotic — he has strong urges — but his behavior forces the villagers to exorcise his demons, creating an allegory about sin. "You Won't Be Alone" is a sensual and gory shapeshifting film that pushes back at society 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z And the painter and critic Sidney Tillim pays tribute to his fellow art writer Clement Greenberg in his mysterious allegory “Who Among Us Really Knows? Or Greenberg’s Doubt,” from 1969. When Dealers, Too, Were Romantics 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The second part, designed by Maria Tregubova, is a relatively straightforward allegory, though none the less ingenious in its execution. Theater Review: ‘Opus No. 7’ From the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow 2013-01-14T21:58:16Z The ending of every story is an intimation and an allegory of death, which is one reason the cold finish of “The Sopranos” a few years ago felt so jarring and, upon reflection, so right. Film: An Old Pairing: Summer and Movie Sequels 2010-06-11T04:28:00Z "Discovery's" daemons, the third magical species, seem extraneous to its cosmology; perhaps they'll play a larger part in sequels, or perhaps their presence is necessary to illustrate some alchemical allegory. 'A Discovery of Witches': at Oxford University, unrest among the supernatural set 2011-02-17T21:27:04Z Yet Monks trims some of the Christian allegory, and finally Kai arranges the fragments of the word he's been looking for. The Snow Queen ? review 2010-12-16T22:15:03Z In Dorner’s case, the allegory of life to a furnace takes literal weight — he has died, consumed by fire. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z Their need for flesh is an allegory for survival. Cannibal-themed "Bones and All" makes the ultimate case for veganism 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But was my play, which I ended up calling “Buzz,” really a climate-change allegory? Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z To this, the friend said that it didn’t matter if he got the facts wrong because the book was really an allegory of communism. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z This is unsettling, but Simon and Burns’s version goes further, turning Roth’s subtly furious mock memoir into a seething, ambiguous allegory. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z That is not the case in “The Ides of March,” which is less an allegory of the American political process than a busy, foggy, mildly entertaining antidote to it. | 'The Ides of March': ?The Ides of March,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-10-06T12:00:00Z Of course, the horse is an allegory for masculinity, which is, in the dream, exhausted, unable to breathe. Leïla Slimani on Living with Unbearable Secrets 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z In films, blatant allegory seems absurd, so when it's in play it has to keep its head down. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z Now I don't need a Liverpool allegory, so I don't see it. TV Club: GBH 2010-03-17T11:52:00Z "It's all an allegory to be exploring the way we view love, the way we think about love." "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z It is an allegory, using the French Revolution as an analogue to the Russian one. Mikhailovsky Ballet Performs ‘Flames in Paris’ in U.S. Debut 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Still, the lessons about reckoning, forgiveness, reconciliation and rebuilding following a time period of destruction, exploitation, and chaos, are an apt allegory for the present. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" remains one of the purest portrayals of fighting fascism on modern TV 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z What keeps the novel from flying off into allegory is its extraordinary descriptiveness. Books of The Times: ‘Pure,’ a New Novel by Andrew Miller 2012-07-03T21:48:27Z He’s written a complex allegory for the tribal cruelties in Iraq in the wake of the American invasion. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The story is ostensibly an allegory of “atonement” — a word repeated frequently by Williams — presumably for white men’s treatment of black men. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And it allows the filmmakers to create a clear climate-change allegory. ‘Strange World’ Review: All Too Familiar 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Fascism rocks and young minds roll in “The Wave,” a fist-pumping political allegory delivered with more conviction than subtlety. | 'The Wave': The Siren Song of Groupthink 2011-05-26T23:10:14Z Although “The Childhood of Jesus” and “The Schooldays of Jesus” are presented as allegories, they never yield any interesting allegorical meaning. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z And it was this idea of, we take Zuri's issues and the kinds of things that she's dealing with this season, and we make her issues allegories of what adults deal with. Evolving "Hair Love" into "Young Love": Matthew A. Cherry's "live action-feeling" animated comedy 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The sculpture, dedicated here just over a century ago, in 1915, is an exhilarating allegory of the vital but unbridgeable relationship between spirit and flesh. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z This brightly colored homage to George Orwell’s timely allegory is heartbreaking and elegant. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Maybe it is an allegory of the artist holding fast to his roots in the earth of painting itself while bending to gusts of visionary imagination. Art in Review: Carroll Dunham 2012-12-06T23:06:32Z A study of a symbol, it is an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z For the few hours or days that this photograph elicits chatter and argument, there will be efforts to make it an allegory of law and judgment rather than an opportunity for moral imagination and compassion. Perspective | We used to think photos like this could change the world. What needs to change is who we are. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z I always tell people, if you invest in the Easter eggs and the larger allegory of the show, you’re going to get so much more out of it. Robin Thede Is on a Mission 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z We’re never sure, and thus the tension of allegory — a literary mode in which truth and fiction are held in suspension together — is introduced. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z A woman is trapped in the Alps in this Austrian allegory. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z But the director, Tom Harper, seems less interested in allegory than in monotonous, conventional goosing, the kind that involves flickering lights and a creaky rocking chair. ‘The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death,’ by Tom Harper 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “The poles are rich with allegory and ceremony,” said Henry F. Skerritt, curator of the indigenous arts of Australia at the Kluge-Ruhe and the exhibition’s organizer. Richly Decorated Memorials Emerge From Ancient Traditions 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Not for nothing did Mary Shelley give “Frankenstein” the subtitle “The Modern Prometheus”; the finest genre fiction has always examined humanity through allegory. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z But if it takes an extended Twitter thread to explain your racial allegory, then maybe it’s not working. Will Smith’s Bright: racial allegory or straight up racism? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z What worked so well about “Swoon” is that it is an allegory. Bad times make great art: The AIDS crisis and the New Queer Cinema 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z His storytelling is leaner and more controlled than in “Beijing Coma,” a landmark 2008 novel about the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath, and the allegory he employs here adds a dimension of supernatural possibility. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z Not even as allegory could the fantastical adventure that swallows the second act sustain my interest; its concerns are sketchy, as thin as comic book stock. Review: ‘Superhero,’ a Comic-Book Musical Too Flimsy to Fly 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But their imagery, as Crowley points out in his footnotes, is inconsistent: any allegory is defeated by the book’s sheer incongruity. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But it works rather nicely as an allegory of the relationship between criticism and fandom, archetypal impulses that coexist within each of us but that are embodied by the two lovers. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Through two people drawn together despite their past, the film paints a fresh perspective of the era and gives an allegory for our own times in the age of Obama. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Was it that the allegory marched with too heavy a tread, the parallel between the black panther and the Nazis too obvious? How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z Indeed, it’s tempting to see in that loose trilogy, “There Will Be Blood,” “The Master” and “Inherent Vice,” a shimmering allegory of our current crisis. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “It’s an allegory for the modern black experience through the lens of an epic African fantasy,” she said in an interview. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It soon evolves into a phantasmagorical allegory sprinkled with surrealistic scenes that recall Gogol’s “The Nose” and Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita.” Review: In Vladimir Sorokin’s ‘The Blizzard,’ a Doctor’s Long and Strange Trip 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z This work is by the Japanese director Toshiki Okada and uses baseball as an allegory to dissect the relationship among Japan, South Korea and the United States. Review: In ‘God Bless Baseball,’ Japan, Korea and America’s Pastime 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Here, however, the political allegory is strongly articulated. The Art of Animated Reality: Walerian Borowczyk and Jacques Demy 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths — bringing up stories of witches, biblical allegories and ancient traditions. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s more like a complex social allegory, delivered in a film of masterful restraint and great compassion. “The Innocents”: A powerful fable of rape and rebirth in a Polish convent 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Joy” is a process film, but one in which the process is subordinated to allegory. David O. Russell’s Self-Reflexive “Joy” 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z There, the story with the animals appears to have saved Pi from trauma, and so we happily choose to believe in it, preferring religious myth to literary allegory. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z The researcher suggests in a few places that the whole story can be read as an allegory of the Hoxha regime, with first Rovena and then Besfort in the role of the tyrant. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z Jenni Lomax was the art education person then, and she told us, through looking at the paintings, about the Weimar republic and allegory. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z One is a moral allegory, populated by characters representing the perfect husband, the blameless wife, the loyal servant, the just ruler — personified ideals that are, for better and worse, still honored in India. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z The allegory of “The Lobster” offers a sense of social significance while keeping a sophisticated distance from any actual issue. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Artists in their late works often turn their lives into allegories. Athol Fugard builds on his distinguished corpus with 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The plot of “Piranha 3D,” or a subtle allegory of the subprime mortgage crisis? Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-08-18T19:30:00Z Goya’s dark visions — his sardonic, scathing, urgently exploratory tone — are behind so many of Thompson’s final works, with their black magic and bat wings and arcane allegory. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z In fact, its negotiations with fantasy, fable, song and allegory are so organic, continuous and unpredictable as to make any summary of its plot sound absurd; but absurdity is neither Morrison’s strategy nor purpose. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z If you want to watch the film as a trans allegory, there’s certainly a lot there. How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z There’s no mystery about what is causing the mind control and there’s no subtlety about what the allegory means. BrainDead: The Good Wife creators make a self-aware, allegorical B-movie 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z An elegant allegory, “Walk Unafraid” espouses the idea of living a fearless life, even if this path is different: “They claim to walk unafraid, I’ll be clumsy instead.” R.E.M.’s 10 best songs after Bill Berry: Daring, brilliant, underappreciated 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z This was an allegory made in the time of Stalin, who reportedly greatly favored it. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Is there a danger that if they describe it as one thing – the “diversity western”, say, or the “anti-Trump allegory” – then it will become fixed as that forever? Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The intriguing composition, perhaps an allegory, has yet to be convincingly explained. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z Orwell based “Animal Farm” on historical events, turning them into allegory, and may have actually named the farmer in the novel after Gareth Jones. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Television should be about creating discussion and controversy, and to allow ideas to be talked about through allegory and imagery. Doctor Who Series 8 Episode 7 Review: Kill The Moon 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z With 16 paintings created over 22 years, the show is an introduction to Mr. Lovelace’s style, which blends the directness of much outsider art with a cogent political awareness and a penchant for allegory. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The search for meaning and a way to cope gave rise to allegories, myths, science and religion. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Spoiler alert: In the last six episodes of the epic climate-change allegory, the steady rise in dragon fire warms the atmosphere, winter is averted and the White Walkers settle down peacefully in the now-temperate north. Winter TV Preview: ‘True Detective,’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’ and 19 More Shows to Watch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z With formal perfect pitch, comedic élan and fearless indiscretion he creates disjunctive cartoon allegories of surrealistic perversity. Art In Review: STEVE GIANAKOS: ?New Paintings? 2012-02-09T22:52:01Z A spooky tale about plane crash survivors on a strange island increasingly became a labored allegory about free will and destiny, individualism and solidarity. Television: As ?Lost? Ends on ABC, Mythology Trumps Mystery 2010-05-20T19:10:00Z A beautifully enigmatic drama is transformed into a crude political allegory. London Theater Journal: The Serious Season 2010-08-02T16:20:00Z And it’s an allegory for where Northern Island is today.” The Carpetbagger: Oscar-Nominated Shorts From Some Familiar Names 2012-02-21T21:02:06Z If so, it would be a more fitting allegory for current climate activism. "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The movie, an uneasy amalgam of horror and allegory, full of creepy, gory effects and literary and mythological allusions, amounts to a sustained and specific indictment of the titular gender. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z But what I’m trying to reveal is a darker side of allegory and what it might reveal about us. She Tackled Aristotle in an Opera. Next Up: Medieval French Couplets. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Pitched somewhere between allegory and documentary, the film looks at its characters in a dispassionate, almost deadpan way. Movie Review: Santiago Mitre’s ‘Estudiante’ Is a Study of Behavior 2013-08-21T22:32:30Z If it weren't a documentary, it would seem like a post-apocalyptic allegory of our own vaccination debate. 'Every Last Child' a powerful look at polio fight in Pakistan 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z To her, “Spamtown” is “absolutely a play about economic justice and unions on a literal level. It also functions very well as an allegory for what it’s like to grow up in a hyperpartisan society.” ‘Spamtown, USA’ Looks at a Bitter Strike Through Children’s Eyes 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Still, this scrupulous attention to period detail is ultimately in the service of allegory. In ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,’ California Dreaming, Darkly 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Many of them come freighted with Christian allegory and symbolism, including the tadpoles. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z With science so politicized in this country and abroad, the book could be an allegory for every scientist who wants to take a stand. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z On the one hand, this is an allegory about generational misunderstanding set at a moment when Spain was still emerging from the shadows of the Franco dictatorship. Movie Review: ‘Madrid, 1987,’ Directed by David Trueba 2012-10-12T02:48:01Z Mark Wahlberg returns and is joined by Anthony Hopkins, who might just be lost, and from this spot, what looks like a vague attempt at political allegory! Super Bowl ads: a guide to new TV and film trailers 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “The Dam Keeper,” directed by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, is a wondrous allegory of ecological and emotional woe wrapped in a tale of bullying and betrayal. ‘Crisis Hotline,’ ‘La Parka,’ ‘Joanna’ and Other Short Oscar Nominees 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z An allegory of emancipation, “Panorama” shakes subservient, marginalized figures free from the power structures painted into the mural. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It's hard to resist the suspicion that the exhibition is intended as a microcosm of society, an allegory for democracy, with extra privileges and more fun for those able to pay. Carsten H?ller: deers of perception 2010-12-21T21:59:00Z And that, I now see, is the geometric allegory of Saarinen’s arch: It offers an ideal with enduring significance in a flawed, less-than-ideal world. A New Gateway to the West 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Translated into more than 100 languages, the famous children’s book is one of the world’s top bestsellers, its whimsical allegory also resonating with adults. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z There are good, clear explanations of Lewis's ideas about myth, the distinctions he made between the "imaginary" and the "imaginative", or "allegory" and "supposal". CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z “I wanted to step away from the allegory, to move away from the world of animals and wrestlers and theater,” he explains. 'The Vermeer of Los Angeles'? Slow-art champion Tom Knechtel lets us in the studio 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Even so, it isn’t always clear which gestures in the film should be taken seriously, and which make sport of the genre’s masculine posturing while offering an allegory about a birth mother’s sacrifice. ‘The Mother’ Review: Are You My Sniper? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z If only the story scaffolding supporting it were as elegant as it is in similar social allegories such as "Get Out" – which is a tall order, I'll admit. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Camus’s novel can also be read as an allegory about the struggle against the Nazi occupation of France. Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But Balanchine’s interpretation goes the opposite way, providing instead a divertissement in which nameless dancers become, especially in a long supported adagio for one woman and her partner, a perfect allegory of romantic-chivalrous love. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z The record will widely be read as an allegory for Donald Trump’s bid for the White House, a campaign that has given white supremacists and extreme right-wing groups an unprecedented national platform for bigotry. The new “American Idiot”: Why Drive-By Truckers’ “American Band” is essential listening in the Trump era 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z A film so gruesome one can only interpret it as allegory, Caterpillar focuses on the Japanese home front, and a woman caring for her returning war hero husband. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Curators for the installation, which will be displayed at the Kishon Art Gallery starting on Thursday, told the BBC it was an allegory for the “inertia of Israeli politics.” ArtsBeat: Ariel Sharon Is Subject of Sculpture in Israeli Exhibition 2010-10-19T15:26:00Z He depicts a dark cave decorated for tourists with projected patches of colored lights — a stand-in for the cave in Plato’s allegory, where only the shadows of outside life are visible to those chained within. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z But the show has used the zombie apocalypse to explore personal and relationship allegories. The Walking Dead Watch: “Internment” 2013-11-11T03:01:06Z It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z They are allegories: narrative vessels into which meanings and morals are packed like raisins in an oatmeal cookie; modern, secular equivalents of medieval lives of the saints; cautionary tales and beacons of aspiration. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Frank appears more interested in the moral allegory mandated by the title, in which the frontier is a place of chaos where no god is looking out for anyone. Review: Netflix’s ‘Godless,’ a Western With a Little Bit of Everything 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Roth, who died in 2018, insisted that he did not intend “Plot” as a political allegory. Can It Happen Here? In ‘The Plot Against America,’ It Already Did 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Oz rejects any reading of his book as an allegory for his political beliefs. Amos Oz on His Novel ‘Judas,’ Which Challenges Views of a Traitor 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Lipsyte tries to give his characters cleaner moments of salvation before wrapping things up, but this being a Christ allegory tucked inside a satire, it’s safe to say it doesn’t end terribly well for anyone. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Unenthused, I soon find that the film is actually rather wonderful, a gorgeous allegory for what it was like, and perhaps is still like, to be gay in a hostile society. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z The streaming service is banking on the Victorian fantasy's appeal as an allegory of the intolerance pervading our precarious present, with mythological immigrant creatures clashing with the humans who invades their homelands. 13 can't-miss TV shows coming in August: What stands out in a hot and crowded month 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z I thought that was allegory for a place so complete unto itself that it was suspended in the midst of something other than ordinary dirt. Mary-Louise Parker: The First Time I Performed in New York (With Actual Egg on My Face) 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z I read Lorca’s play as an allegory: Yerma is an improperly tended, barren Spain. Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of 'Yerma in the Desert' 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Similar texts are all over this exhibition, dutifully explaining every last fox-headed kid as an allegory of race and empire. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z Post and Gordon said naming the record "Ghost Notes" became an allegory for the tracks that were inspired by the band's breakup. Veruca Salt reunites to tell story of breakup, recovery in 'Ghost Notes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z "A second Egypt," says Sidney Furlow of this land, "only not as full of allegory." Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z A stay-at-home mom with twin boys, she draws elaborate cartoon allegories of personal experience and global politics using sources as diverse as children’s books, Japanese prints and newspaper front pages. Art in Review: ?DAY JOB? 2011-01-20T22:32:51Z "The old man is writing a brilliant Holocaust allegory where the animals are a metaphor for the Jews," Henry told his wife. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z Howard Jacobson published a satirical political allegory about a vain, vulgar prince that fell flat with critics and readers. A 1965 Novel About an Unhinged President Is Being Rereleased 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Through the allegory of the multiverse, Zapata reinterprets the extent and toll of exile on Earth, the gulf between universes of human experience. Generations of Exiles Collide in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z As with adulthood itself—for which the VFD is a kind of allegory—there are no simple lessons or meanings. Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”: A Cautionary Tale for Those Who Believe in Comforting Lies 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z And then there are those fictional books based on real history, whether allegory or reimagining: something like Libra by Don DeLillo or George Orwell's classic Animal Farm rock my socks any time. How facts spoil history books 2011-07-21T11:30:35Z His art weaves narratives, allegories, images and symbols that roll over the viewer in waves. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The earliest stories, after all, were fables, allegories, shared aloud, and there is something of the allegorical to “Drunken Fireworks,” as well. Stephen King's 'Drunken Fireworks' -- available only on audio 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z All the characters, earthly and unearthly, remain one-dimensional, which is appropriate to a fable or allegory. ‘A Fable’ in Two Acts at the Cherry Lane 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But though made in English in an antipodean setting, this is really a European art movie made by a French director whose forte is allegory. Sundance film festival 2013: Two Mothers – first look review 2013-01-21T16:44:09Z In “The Surveyed,” a clever allegory, Gorman compares our desire for safety and belonging in this pandemic and nationalistic era to the hopes of Blacks migrating out of the Jim Crow South. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Or, put another way: he understood that the extremity of the Thirty Years’ War required an extremity in form, and that an allegory could show something other representations could not. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The episode also veered into accidental allegory, as the triumph of the swaggering Negan, shot months ago and based on comic issues from 2012, at times seemed to align with current events. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It is this jaw-dropping allegory about how quickly democracies can turn into something much more sinister — especially when ordinary people dare to make their positions known. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Anyway, that doesn’t seem to be an allegory that much interests the Wooster Group. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z That episode ends with a particularly beautiful moment, one reminiscent of Plato's cave allegory and which powerfully illustrates how science can dispel fanaticism. Seth MacFarlane: Progressive hero 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Since then, poets and writers have used it as an allegory for love, duty, conflict and accomplishment. In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Here, the technique is applied to an allegory of nearly suffocating self-seriousness, to much less powerful effect. ‘Sunset’ Review: Discovering a Dark Past and a Cataclysmic Future 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Now Aronofsky is making his political point yet more forcefully, and without the benefit of allegory. Watch Darren Aronofsky and Woody Harrelson's Climate Change Ad 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Eco dances on the banks of allegory without drowning in its inane waters. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Even so, the espionage trappings are significant in a work that makes up a quarter of Ashley’s tetralogy “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” which in its entirety is an allegory for American westward expansion. A Spy Opera (or Is It?) Returns to the Stage 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z After the couple experience a schism, they each seek solace in drug-fueled liaisons with others, and the rationale for sci-fi allegory is pretty much dispensed with. A Robot Romance on Amazon, American Indies and a ‘Taxi Driver’ Commentary 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z You might see some allegories because the characters in "American Carnage" and the Trumps do some of the same things — but remember these are things that Richard III did too. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z But when a chaotic and unruly family of nine moves in next door and tries to crudely practice beekeeping with less patience, “Honeyland” becomes a starkly simple environmental allegory. Making Oscar history, ‘Honeyland’ shatters borders 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z In his review, Daniel Swift calls the book “a study of a symbol … an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big.” 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer committee praised “The Underground Railroad” as “a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America.” Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'The Underground Railroad' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The show has a rarity, too, in one of Philip Guston's arduous socialist allegories of civil war and strife played out by street children with wooden swords. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z Its melody is like the arduous scaling of a mountain toward a glorious peak, and Parks’s lyrics suggest an allegory about the challenge facing pop music — and the entire 1960s generation — in being taken seriously. The 1970s Brought Change to the Beach Boys. A New Boxed Set Celebrates It. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It was a revisionist western, an ecological fable, a post-Vietnam political allegory — a tale of romance, valor and revenge with traces of Homer, James Fenimore Cooper and “Star Trek” in its DNA. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: Big Blue Marvel 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Every monster that ever terrorized an urban area or a small town is an allegory for the threat of nuclear annihilation or some such. Critic’s Notebook: Horror Films at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-17T22:10:07Z So treating Zuri and her friends' experiences kind of like allegories of different adult situations allowed us to raise her relatability factor. Evolving "Hair Love" into "Young Love": Matthew A. Cherry's "live action-feeling" animated comedy 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Soper performed the second selection, as an allegory of Reason, in which a neo-Classical piano part adds arch prettiness to a text that cleverly spins variations and puns on the same key words. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “The Treasure” is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania’s precarious place at the margins of the European Union. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The image was almost too easy to read as allegory: a comic literally willing to bare it all, her flesh literally scarred, the shape of her body a living rebuke to gender norms. Tig Notaro’s Topless Set 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “Young’s greatest skills are subtlety and silence, relating truths through allegory and meaningful detail.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z And her radically anti-historical consideration of Jesus is combined with a powerful testament to the efficacy of allegories. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It becomes an allegory of heaven or hell, a vision of the apocalypse, the spectre of civilisations past. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z In 2012, Christine Love’s Analogue: A Hate Story smartly turned the epistolary novel into an interstellar interactive mystery to tell an allegory about Korean history. Text Games in a New Era of Stories 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z In the running allegory of this scathing, slapstick sendup of the American dream, the road to riches — or simple economic security — runs through a feral ecosystem of predators and prey. Review: On ‘Killing It,’ It’s Dog (and Snake and Gator) Eat Dog 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z All science fiction is allegory on some level, and "Raised By Wolves" poses questions about humanity that many, many other films and series have before by filtering its observations through its synthetic lifeforms. Ridley Scott's new series "Raised by Wolves" imagines a bleak future for humanity – and android moms 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z I don't write books and give speeches but with a four-minute song you can use allegory and other means to suggest a different point of view. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z Like the easy allegory of the entire asylum-limbo story line, it’s a case of infatuation with form impeding function. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: Asylum Seekers 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Wallace and Miller’s unequal relationship reads as an allegory for the quiet humiliation that Miller suffered professionally as a young woman. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z “Are We Not Drawn,” directed by Alexander Devriendt, falls on the milder end of that spectrum, even as it functions as an allegory about climate destruction. Review: ‘Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era’ Stages a Disaster in Reverse 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Fred Zinnemann's western, a liberal allegory about cowardice in the face of McCarthyism, won an Oscar for the uncomprehending rightwinger Gary Cooper. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z That 1966-69 original series used allegory to evade network censors and tell stories about racism and xenophobia and even the Vietnam War. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z This is an allegory for what every teenage son does. Fear the Walking Dead: season two, episode 13 – Date of Death 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Much as he did in “District 9,” a wobbly political allegory about crustaceanlike E.T.’s subjected to apartheid abuse in South Africa, Mr. Blomkamp builds on real catastrophes to create a cautionary shocker. Movie Review: ‘Elysium’ Sends Matt Damon Into a Dystopian Future 2013-08-08T17:18:18Z “It has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life,” Ginia Bellafante wrote in The Times last August. DVDs: Stealing From the Rich, Sherwood-Style, Over Years 2010-05-22T07:04:00Z There's no question that some filmmakers have successfully combined the two approaches, packaging a conventional "hot" character narrative inside "cooler," geek-friendly allegories about perception and technology. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z The book is an allegory about the innocence of childhood. Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry commemorated by Google doodle 2010-06-29T10:27:00Z But on a deeper level, it’s a powerful allegory about taking pride in who you are. Civilities: How to prevent kids from learning to fear gay people 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z These nominees suggested a range of approaches to a volatile subject, from allegory to melodrama to various kinds of realism. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z Surrealistic, campy and ferociously expressionist, Mr. Lamar’s multimedia work is a heady blend of music, performance, film and political allegory that grapples with the legacy of slavery in America. M. Lamar: ‘Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A road movie that opens into a political allegory, “3 Faces” is filled with unexpected turns. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Walter Hill's classic action thriller, a nightmarish Vetnam allegory played out in swampy Louisiana Cajun territory. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-11-24T00:05:00Z Their unending mutual vendetta is Mr. Kentridge’s allegory — both personal and political — of the history of South Africa rent by apartheid. As Plain as the Nose on His Stage 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z "It was very much in the DNA of the script," says Jackman of the film's allegory. Tales of Torture on movie screens in Toronto 2013-09-10T13:02:03Z Where other writers get repetitive strain syndrome from pounding at their keyboards all day, Martel suffers from repetitive allegory syndrome. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z I’d previously published an allegory about the occupation of the West Bank called “Sister Hills” that, to my surprise, functioned as a Rorschach test. Perspective | How to write a can’t-win book: An Israeli-Palestinian story 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The photos had a suspended quality that suggested allegory, or maybe court paintings of the 17th century. A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The allegory of “Breaking Bad” is hardly so blatant. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z Statues of women are not uncommon, but they’re allegories and nobodies, mothers and muses and props but not Presidents. City of Women 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z This year, for instance, after a long hiatus, Yann Martel published Beatrice and Virgil, a woefully reductive, clumsy and disrespectful allegory. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z In Payne's hands, Election transcended its roots as the sharply observed tale of a high-school president contest, to become an allegory for American politics, in which the sharp-elbowed battle the stupid and manipulated. Election: No 14 2010-10-18T10:40:00Z But don’t expect Ms. Parks ever to abandon her love of allegory and her sense that a play has to be about something other than what it seems to be. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z "Gen V" could be allegory for consent ... in theory. "Gen V" is bloody and raunchy enough to live up to the expectations set by "The Boys" 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Or, more plausibly, is it a not-so-subtle allegory for the Sri Lankan government's treatment of Tamils? MIA's Born Free: going for the jugular 2010-05-01T23:10:00Z Though Mr. Albee will have my hide for saying this, “The Lady From Dubuque” is an allegory. Theater Review: ?Edward Albee?s The Lady From Dubuque? at End Stage Theater 2012-03-06T03:00:39Z Chronicling a lost monkey-prince’s journey to self-realisation, it’s part fairytale, part philosophical allegory, and rather more like Araby than you might think. Streaming: is the Brazilian film Araby the movie of the decade? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z If she’s a ludicrous person, so are a great many of her countrymen and countrywomen, and her story also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory. Pick of the week: The beauty queen and the time-share tycoon 2012-07-06T00:10:00Z They approached the cold war as melodrama and McCarthyism by way of allegory. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z But this Concrete Temple Theater production offers an allegory more ecological than political. Can Puppets Save the World From Extinction? 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The town clings to news of their success, viewing it as an allegory for the town's future. HBO's Swedish import "Beartown" is a chilling interrogation of the power we give young, athletic men 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z A nearly eight-and-a-half minute allegory that goes from mournful to infectious to mournful again, the monster 1971 radio hit is seemingly known to all generations and still sung at bar-closing times the world over. ‘The Day the Music Died’ Review: ‘American Pie,’ the Life of a Hit 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z The more you consider this strange little masterpiece, the more suggestive it becomes, shifting from a single incident at a beach to a tiny allegory of loneliness and the desire for human connection. Michael Dirda on the misunderstood poet Stevie Smith 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s an effective allegory of unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game. "On Becoming a God in Central Florida" exposes unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Several of the novels recognized by judges this year deploy humor, myth and allegory to tackle painful chapters of history. Biting Satires Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z In much the same way that it’s not about race, “The Intruder” is not about politics, which is to say that there’s a suggestive little allegory tucked into its by-the-numbers plot. ‘The Intruder’ Review: Dennis Quaid as a Homeowner’s Nightmare 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “Cinders,” in which a reform-school production of “Cinderella” becomes an allegory for totalitarianism, was among his most widely produced plays. Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright of Terror and Dark Humor, Dies at 78 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Jacobus' allegory becomes one of the central messages of "The Queen's Gambit." In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Does every movie have to be a political allegory now? Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z There are a few others, including a remarkable depiction of childbirth as a kind of Titian-esque allegory by Minna Citron; and an oil portrait of the photographer Rosalie Hook by Alexander Brook, Bacon’s husband. Art in Review: ?PEGGY BACON AND HER CIRCLE? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z "Lagoon" is far more than an allegory of ecological repair. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z First Job was another allegory, a three-dimensional bar graph of early work life that didn’t add up for me. At U.P., Dominique Ansel Moves Beyond the Cronut 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The fictional Republic of Gilead as an allegory of Trump’s America drew scoffs from conservatives, some of whom argued that its vision of sexual slavery could also be read as a parable about assisted reproduction. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Whatever the limits of allegory, this interpretation is both intriguing and touching. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z But the play itself, a hot-off-the-press allegory of Middle East strife when it debuted a decade ago, feels dated. 'Dirty Story': combative couplings in Intiman festival's opener 2012-07-12T15:38:04Z “But it would be years before I came out as gay, years before I came out as trans. Narratives have been my way of exploring those identities, even as allegory.” How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z The film is an allegory about separation and shared custody, in a weird way. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer jury described the piece as “a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world.” Lynn Nottage on her Pulitzer win for drama: 'I’m representing for women' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, and so is this remarkable latter-day allegory. A provocative 'Kingdom City' at La Jolla Playhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z To this genre we can add Hannah Lash’s chamber opera “Desire,” a dreamy and enigmatic allegory about the creative process that premiered Wednesday night at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It's an interpretation of the human condition, an allegory for aging, and a cry of desperation in a rapidly industrializing society. 12 unsettling facts about "The Metamorphosis" 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter" is a moody comic allegory about desperation, disconnection and dreams that uses "Fargo," the Coen brothers classic, as a touchstone to examine modern life. 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' chases her 'Fargo' dream 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Is this, or is this not, an allegory of power? The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain – review 2013-03-19T12:09:05Z Q: Would you call “Lucky” a religious allegory? ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It's hard not to see that as an allegory for those artists in danger. From Dada to surrealism - review 2011-07-19T12:59:02Z Their names, of course, are an indication: expect the poetic, and an undercurrent of allegory. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Through rich, colorful allegories of the two world wars, the Russian Revolution and his experience as a Jew fleeing Nazi Europe, Chagall's paintings are presented as a witness account of the turbulent 20th century. Art witness: the 20th century according to Chagall 2013-02-19T16:37:08Z When they get too didactic, allegories turn boring, but when they veer too far from didacticism they get lost. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z As violent allegories of female agency, rivalry and loyalty go, “Hanna” is more straightforward, more ordinary in its genre mechanics and less fashionable in its style than “Killing Eve.” 15 Summer TV Shows We’re Looking Forward To 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z He saw baseball as a Homeric allegory, one in which a hero — the batter — ventures from home and must overcome unforeseen challenges in order to return. Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z “The Purge” franchise follows a long tradition of American movies that couch the fears and anxieties of contemporary culture in allegory or simply reflect them right back to us. When bloody horror movies are actually about . . . politics 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The original “Gojira” was an allegory of human recklessness, much as the old “King Kong” was a tragedy catalyzed by human cruelty. ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The “conducted sacrifice” becomes an allegory about obsession and its costs. A Poet Whose Calling Is Doubt Celebrates Language’s Uncertainty 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Among many things, the Potter series is an extended allegory about real-world prejudice. Casting a Black Hermione Underscores a Key ‘Harry Potter’ Theme 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But her selflessness in the service of evil acted as an allegory for motherhood. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z “But every time I went back to that allegory, I found my wisdom.” Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z In real life, coming out or not – much like True Blood’s civil rights allegory– is a divisive question: is the pop-cultural fascination with vampires an opportunity to build alliances and enlighten the world? Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Titled “SeaWave,” it’s an allegory to flowing water and its universality to life. For years, Gerard Tsutakawa’s sculptures have shaped Seattle’s landscape. Here’s how — and what else is coming 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z His tragedy could serve as an allegory for Mayotte — an impoverished place neglected by France, though a better option nonetheless for huge numbers of desperate migrants arriving from the neighboring Comoro Islands. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z As an ambitious allegory for the chaos and torment of addiction, “Hellraiser” works mainly because of A’zion, who gives her scattered character a deeply human desperation. ‘Hellraiser’ Review: Hurt Me, Please 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z This is obviously a political allegory and most in Hollywood are liberals. BrainDead: The Good Wife creators make a self-aware, allegorical B-movie 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Squint hard, and you could read Mabrel’s story as a sort of allegory of awakening, as conceived by a Wagnerian feminist. Review: ‘Fondly, Collette Richland’ Offers Open-Eyed Dreaming 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The episode was a curious double allegory of the loss of privacy: exposing not just someone’s private thoughts, but a married couple’s internal negotiation of their public responsibility. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created The story is an allegory of the so-called special period in Cuba during the 1990s, a time of widespread poverty created by the fall of the Soviet Union. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z We have been censored for so long that the only way we can express ourselves is through the use of metaphors and allegory. Shirin Neshat: A long way from home 2010-06-13T21:01:00Z And yes, she's a woman named Memory writing her memoir, pushing the tale into the realm of allegory. Petina Gappah's 'The Book of Memory' is a vivid and powerful debut novel 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But there's also something more conceptual, with the loss of iconic foods a sort of allegory for climate change's impact on intangible things like culture, how it's shaped by our relationship to place. Georgia’s peach crop loss is about more than just fruit 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Some critics have read the film as an allegory of the Maoist insurgency sweeping through the Indian hinterlands. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z Some believe Mr. Ayah’s prophecies are literal, others believe they are allegory. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Dinah is seen as an allegory of what befalls those who stray beyond the proper confines of their faith and family, particularly if they happen to be women. The Book of Genesis, part 6: Patriarchs and others 2011-01-18T12:37:35Z Despite traces of contemporary influences, “AfterEffect” is an old-fashioned allegory. Review: With ‘AfterEffect,’ Marcelo Gomes Debuts as a Choreographer 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z More important, its dystopian allegory responds to a real need. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z A few months before he died, in 2018, Roth told me in an interview that he never intended his book as a political allegory. ‘The Plot Against America’ Imagines the Rise of an Intolerant Demagogue 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z His latest is no less bizarre: a pitch-black allegory about an Afghan war veteran employed as a factory stoker. The Stoker – review 2013-05-16T21:02:01Z “Given how thorough the mix of crime story and social allegory is, Hawley and his crew have done an impressive job of weaving,” Mike Hale wrote in his review of the season for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The setup is so simple that it’s tempting to treat their narratives as allegories, or to contrast them in a search for deep meanings. Theater Review: ‘The Weir’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2013-05-27T21:24:29Z Inevitably, given the feminist anti-Trump protests and #MeToo movement, “The Handmaid’s Tale” will continue to be seen as an allegory of politics today. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Aronson’s work animated Old and New Testament allegories to convey universal human emotions — defying the deference of his father, a rabbi, to the Second Commandment. David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But Petzold doesn’t hammer the potential for political parable or allegory here — which is a little surprising, given the lessons on modern German history he offers up in pictures such as “Phoenix.” ‘Undine’ Review: Love In and Out of the Water 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z But madness is the trade-off, which becomes an allegory for where Germany is headed. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Each one is, accordingly, a perfect two-sided coin, a story of heroic resolve that is also a troubling allegory of greed and hubris. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Jonathan Cuartas said in a statement that “My Heart Can’t Beat” was inspired by his grandmother’s death in hospice, but the film also presents a strong allegory for addiction. ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ Review: Bound by Blood 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z “With science so politicized in this country and abroad, the book could be an allegory for every scientist who wants to take a stand.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Achingly beautiful, quiet and graceful, his award-winning novel Waiting is a love story superimposed on a political allegory. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z Conceived as a government-sponsored informational video, this documentary is nothing less than a found epic, a real-life environmental allegory and, not least, a stinging comedy about the age-old problem of inconsiderate neighbors. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But as the goat grows up and encounters danger after danger, the story also becomes a political allegory. 9 Books to Watch For in December 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But it was attacked paradoxically as kind of an anti-communist allegory at the time by critics. Human, all too human: 10 sci-fi films that show what it means to be alive 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The novel was Camus’s allegory for the resistance to fascism. Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Neither as majestically inscrutable as Kafka’s panther nor as pointed as “Infinite Jest”’s fatally addictive videocassette, the Curio thus spends much of the book somewhere in the horse latitudes of allegory. What if, Instead of the Internet, We Had Xenobots? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z With this multidimensional tableau Mr. Biggers puts into play a semiotic carnival whose main elements are dreamlike allegories of African-American experience. Art Review: Sanford Biggers?s Art in a Two-Borough Exhibition 2011-10-20T20:30:09Z Revealing anything else about the episode would ruin the woozy trick of it, but obviously — maybe too obviously? — it is topmost an allegory of fame’s hollowness, questioning whether the cost is worth the returns. Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone" is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Whether this production is another connect-the-dots allegory hardly matters; “Hamlet” is political however you dress the courtiers. 5 Must-See Shows if You’re in New York This Month 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z David Hartman “Mother!” has beautiful cinematography and may pretend to intellectual high-minded allegory, but in reality the repetitive theme of creation and destruction plays out more like “Groundhog Day” in hell than a biblical allegory. Hating ‘Mother!’: Readers Speak Out 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z I just think that, weirdly, being an actress is the perfect allegory for what we're talking about. "GLOW" star Betty Gilpin on battling "implanted patriarchy" and women "cycling through selves" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z While Mr. von Sternberg claimed the film was not a political allegory, in 1933 it was banned in Nazi Germany. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Safe’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z After a conversation with a fellow trucker who’s “caught in the amber of class, education and diminished expectations,” Murphy offers a sharp diversion from the expected up-by-the-bootstraps allegories. Memoirs Take the Wheel 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But building a rocket is also a clear allegory for making art, for creating something so extraordinary that the whole world must notice. In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z All of his films have been allegories, stories of small-scale breakdowns in civilisation as a result of societal ruination. Ben Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy' 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z It is unclear if Ms. Woods intended this stunning film to be a brutal, brilliant allegory for women and film, but it’s impossible not to see it as such. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Set in the wilds of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in a future America ravaged by civil war, this incantatory novel draws on Appalachian folk tales to fashion a sensuous allegory about the power of storytelling. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But the Mason marriage also suggests an allegory of the West itself, which Stegner saw as perpetually and fatally rived between a destructive, antisocial individualism and a too often stymied longing for stability and community. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z This is an allegory that operates entirely on its own terms, with its own ingenious lexicon. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z At its release, many critics described it as an esoteric religious allegory. | 'Teorema': ?Teorema? Goes From Film to Stage at Lincoln Center 2010-07-16T22:36:00Z Instead, it harnesses the allegory of monarch butterflies to sketch an alternate journey of being and belonging. ‘Son of Monarchs’ Review: Of Butterflies and Belonging 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “In the Flesh” is of course a complex and thought-provoking allegory. ‘In the Flesh’: a zombie drama with heart and brains 2014-05-08T20:36:33Z But Sol’s story is much messier, much funnier and a lot more interesting than a one-to-one allegory.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Written by a Vietnam veteran as an allegory of the Vietnam war, “The Forever War” follows reluctant soldier William Mandella as he leaves earth to battle the mysterious alien race, the Taurans. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z As a work of literature the Bible has everything: poetry, philosophy, storytelling, myths, fictions, riddles, fables, parables, allegories. 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