Review Directory
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Books
Book review: Best Fetish Erotica, edited by Cara Bruce
A collection of short fiction by edgy San Francisco publishers Cleis Press offers some of the best writing in the fetish genre. Among these twenty-one stories are masterpieces of cyber-fetish fantasy, by Raven Kaldera, and of dark erotica by Anne Tourney.
Best Fetish Erotica is published by Cleis Press (San Francisco, 2009): 189pp.
Book review: Eroticism & Art, by Alyce Mahon
“…this book is testimony to the futility, the foolishness or the deceit of any attempt to divorce art and its ‘formal concerns’ from the sociopolitical context of its time... It is, as the author states categorically, ‘an impossible divide’ – and we have modernist ‘representations of the erotic body’ to thank for making this clear.”
Eroticism & Art, by Alyce Mahon.
Book review: Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert
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Book review: Freak Parade, by Marilyn Jaye Lewis
The latest offering, and her first self-published novel, by SDk02’s literature writer. Lewis is a prolific author, and she keeps up her momentum with this award-winning story of love and grime in New York City. Eugène Satyrisci, no stranger to love and grime himself, graciously accepted the task of this review.
Freak Parade (hardcover, paperback, Kindle).
Freak Parade (ebook).
Book review: Necrophilia Variations, by Supervert
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Book review: Perversity Think Tank, by Supervert
Supervert is an enigma; he’s based in Manhattan, and he’s produced three books with, in our view, rather compelling titles and even more compelling subject matter. We think those who are unfamiliar with him have probably been missing something worthwhile, so we decided to adopt an unusual approach in the review genre and review the writer’s complete print-published oeuvre in one issue of SomethingDark.
Perversity Think Tank - Necrophilia Variations - Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish
Exhibitions
Exhibition review: Rose, c’est Paris, Bettina Rheims & Serge Bramly
Those who thought Surrealism died with André Breton in 1966 will be delighted, or aghast, to learn the spirit of the movement he headed for some forty-five years is still alive in the form of a new feature-length film and body of photographic work. And they were made in Paris.
Taschen trade edition of Rose, c’est Paris. Amazon UK.
Films
Film review: Inside Job, by Charles Ferguson
If Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Moody’s, and Standard and Poor’s – or, for that matter, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds – don’t mean a great deal to you, then they should, and this documentary explains why: the Global Financial Crisis was not an accident, but the inevitable result of a corrupt and parasitic financial system. In riveting style, Inside Job also demonstrates how nothing has changed and “GFC Part 2” is already in the making. The most important film this century will soon be available locally almost everywhere on DVD.
Inside Job (DVD)
Performance
Performance review: Trilogy, by Nic Green
In this celebration of femininity, women of all ages, shapes and sizes take the stage and shed their garments in a fusion of theatre, dance, music and multimedia. But that’s not all… Trilogy is complex, and combines unfaltering entertainment with constructively provocative social comment.