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Arsa’s father made sculptures for a patron who wanted pleasing statues. After his death, she gathers plastic and other debris from the shore and makes sculptures of her own. MASBEDO’s Arsa connects the two practices through flashbacks, giving the eighteen-year-old’s work a history without making her explain it. She has inherited her father’s craft and rejected the terms under which he used it. That is a sturdy foundation for a character who says little. Her days on a sparsely populated island off Sicily have their own order. She collects what the sea deposits, sells some of it to a recycler...

Hosni Ghunim’s home movies have a little extra polish. He worked as a videographer, so the footage of his children at Christmas or dancing around the house sometimes comes with titles and editing touches that an ordinary family tape might lack. Young Colette and her brother Ramsey seem at ease in front of his camera. Then Colette draws our attention to something else in the recordings: a word from her mother, Iza, or a disapproving look that brings her play to a stop. As the footage moves into Colette’s teenage years, the face she presents to the camera grows less...

Atta Oko tells a classroom that human beings came from the sea. The children answer with science and glance at their phones. The exchange is funny because he expects the authority of a storyteller and receives the impatience reserved for an old man repeating himself. Ricky Adelayitar lets Atta’s irritation show, but beneath it sits a harder possibility: the sea has given shape to his whole life, and its stories may no longer give shape to anyone else’s. That fear acquires a humiliating form when Atta is passed over for the position of boat chief. He has waited years to...

Leonor Erasmus corrects a boy for using a racist slur in her home. She seems to mean it. Yet Doreen, who cooks and cleans for the family, cannot bring her grandson Neville into that same house. I first took Leonor’s objection as simple hypocrisy. That seems too easy. She can sincerely dislike the word while accepting the rule that gives it power. Correcting a guest costs her nothing. Making room for Neville would require her to question the household itself. Doreen hears the family discuss Neville’s fate from the half-lit kitchen. She is close enough to listen and has too...

Amália can see that her new gardener does not know his way around the loppers. Fernando’s glasses and careful manner belong easily to a classroom, less easily to the grounds of her Portuguese estate. She seems to suspect that the man calling himself Manuel is someone else, yet she allows him to stay. Their friendship grows inside that decision. A stranger is given the chance to become familiar before he is asked to explain himself. Avelina Prat gives this arrangement a persuasive warmth in The Portuguese House. Amália, played by Maria de Medeiros, remains watchful without turning every quiet exchange...

Capturing a tower in Andorhal sends friendly soldiers marching toward the next stretch of the city. They are controlled by the game, so holding that ground does not mean directing every sword yourself. It means making room for other people to push forward. The Siege of Andorhal gives a familiar Warcraft III battle a feeling of collective effort at a point in the story when Lordaeron has precious little reason for hope. Stratholme makes that effort harder to hold onto. Garek Bandarion and the elven priest Ilastar Songbreeze lead separate groups through the ruined city, and each can complete an...
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Read moreArsa’s father made sculptures for a patron who wanted pleasing statues. After his death, she gathers plastic and other debris from the shore and makes sculptures of her own. MASBEDO’s...
Hosni Ghunim’s home movies have a little extra polish. He worked as a videographer, so the footage of his children at Christmas or dancing around the house sometimes comes with...
Atta Oko tells a classroom that human beings came from the sea. The children answer with science and glance at their phones. The exchange is funny because he expects the...
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Amália can see that her new gardener does not know his way around the loppers. Fernando’s glasses and careful manner belong easily to a classroom, less easily to the grounds...
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