After I watched The Piano, K recommended The Piano Teacher, which felt in many ways like a middle-class version of Tár ... but without either the lesbian or the corruption angles ( Read more... )

After thinking about it, I think when I was a kid my grandfather and one of my older sisters used the "nigger" word at least once in my presence. My parents never did. My parents made a point of raising us not to be racist, sexist, or homophobic. I think maybe I did say "nigger" once in my 20s, when talking with KWC and his friends, but I'm not ( Read more... )