Joyland

Joyland movie review: Beautifully told tale of soul-crushing patriarchy and LGBTphobia in Lahore

Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, Pakistan’s entry for Oscars 2023, is a wonderfully sensitive chronicle of friendship, love, sexual desire and the everydayness behind which oppression and repression thrive.

Cannes 2022: 'I have been living with Joyland for seven years,' says director Saim Sadiq

The director of Pakistani film Joyland on how he wrote a stirring portrayal of sexual awakening set in a conservative Pakistani family and his decision to cast a real trans person.

Later book review: Stephen King delivers a gory mix of crime and horror in his latest whodunnit thriller

Published under the Hard Case Crime imprint, which also distributed The Colorado Kid (2005) and Joyland (2013) — Later is narrated by 22-year-old Jamie, looking back on his formative years. He begins his story at age six, when he first figured out he could see and talk to the dead.

Stephen King on his latest novel, and why he loves writing crime stories: 'If it doesn’t fit a particular genre, that’s good'

His new novel has a lot of crime in it but, as King’s narrator suggests, it might actually be a horror story.