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PICK OF THE WEEK

9 World Wide What Book Club - Omeros

FirstLight · Books · Mon, Oct 12 · 7:00 PM

Walcott’s epic remakes Homer through St. Lucian fishermen and colonial wounds.

Derek Walcott’s Omeros is an ambitious, uneven, and finally commanding epic that turns a St. Lucian fishing village into a stage for Homer, colonial history, and private grief.

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9  Voyage Out - Dom Casmurro

AlienatedMajesty · Sun, Oct 18 · 7:00 PM · Books

Machado de Assis's jealous narrator weaponizes memory to indict his own marriage.

8  NAZA

AFS · Mon, Oct 12 · 4:15 PM · +2 more · Film

Concealed Israeli insiders testify on Tel Aviv rooftops in this taut, controlled documentary.

8  THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE

AFS · Mon, Oct 12 · 6:30 PM · +5 more · Film

A sly, deadpan comic essay using concrete's history to map American absurdity.

8  JIGOKU

AFS · Tue, Oct 13 · 7:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Nakagawa's 1960 hell descent: grotesque tableaus, punishing color, sharp moral turn.

8  NOPE

Paramount · Tue, Oct 13 · 7:30 PM · Film

Jordan Peele’s monster story of ranch siblings and empty skies.

8  The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Club (Free Copies, First Hour for Reading) - This Week's Story

NewYorkerMeetup · Tue, Oct 13 · 7:00 PM · Books

Calling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area! Join our weekly

8  Cinema de la Cultura x Feminist Horror Week Collaboration Huesera: The Bone Woman

Hyperreal · Wed, Oct 14 · 7:30 PM · Film

Feminist horror *Huesera* weaponizes pregnancy with bone-cracking sound and cramped spaces.

8  THE DEVILS

AFS · Fri, Oct 16 · 3:45 PM · +9 more · Film

Ferocious, diseased spectacle of possession and execution, anchored by Reed's Grandier.

8  Cobweb Cabaret

Paramount · Sat, Oct 17 · 9:00 PM · Film

Disciplined gothic burlesque where old Hollywood glamour meets macabre theatricality.