Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast A film about a ship’s captain who abducts women, lowers them into ...

The year is 1830. William IV has ascended the British throne and Andrew Jackson is US president. France is in revolt after Charles X attempted to restore the absolute power of the monarchy. Joseph ...

Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in ...