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Rajah Bose/Rajah Bose for SPR
Jennifer Gray Thompson lost her home to wildfire, then created an organization to help others who go through the same experience. Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer talks about helping people who file wildfire-related claims. Anna King meets people displaced by wildfire at the Spokane County Fairgrounds.
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Penguin Random House
Living in the desert is "not for everybody," says Watkins. Her home, in the Mojave Desert near Death Valley, is staggeringly beautiful and brutal. Her new novel Yellow Pine shares this landscape.
Arts & Culture
  • Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
  • The Odyssey is less a depiction of the Homeric poem than it is a reflection of Christopher Nolan’s trademark themes, Dan Webster says.
  • This week, Movies 101 will be discussing three movies made by foreign directors. They are the haunting British time-travel tale “Rose of Nevada,” the Icelandic domestic study “The Love That Remains” and the Croatian historical documentary “Fiume o Morte!
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