An evocative exploration of adolescence, loneliness and masculinity
- Adam and Teddy, high-schoolers in Vijay Khurana's debut novel, have limited social connections.
- Their relationship is competitive; Adam has a capacity for violence and a fractured home life.
- The boys embark on a road trip through Canada, during which they buy a rifle and kill a traveling couple.
- Teddy struggles with his subordinate role to Adam and seeks connection.
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An evocative exploration of adolescence, loneliness and masculinity
Australian author Vijay Khurana’s debut rewards being read multiple times.
A mobilizing series in which chapter by chapter attends the shipwreck of adult institutions to listen, to understand, to take care of. “They only intend to control what has become incomprehensible to them.” The question, starting from that British miniseries created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham and directed by Philip Barantini: Why are adults unable to understand? And another crucial riddle of the time: What should we desert?About that stor…
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Adolescence is a technical masterpiece that exposes the darkest corners of incel culture and male rage
Kate Cantrell, University of Southern Queensland and Susan Hopkins, University of the Sunshine Coast Filmed in a one-take style, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s new crime drama Adolescence is being hailed by critics as a technical masterpiece. Out now on Netflix, the four-part series follows the fallout surrounding 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) after he
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