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The French author’s award-winning memoir, “Sad Tiger,” is a richly literary and starkly shattering account of childhood ...

Alex Garland’s latest film, which he co-directed with the former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, dramatizes a little-known 2006 ...

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