BOOK JACK

Amos Oz’s Black Box is a psychologically intense epistolary novel that turns a broken marriage into a larger meditation on politics, faith, class, and identity in Israel.

Jon Bernthal remains a fierce Frank Castle, but this review corrects the record: there is no Disney+ special titled The Punisher: One Last Kill, making the piece more a look at Marvel’s uncertain future for the character than a review of an actual release.

Premiering in Cannes’ Special Screenings, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell is a hypnotic, Freud-soaked meta-slasher that trades plot for mood, style, and father-daughter trauma.

Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time turns a hospital-room investigation into a sharp, enduring meditation on Richard III, Tudor propaganda, and how easily accepted history can harden into myth.