Ali Raz is the author of Alien (11:11, 2022) and coauthor, with Vi Khi Nao, of Human Tetris (11:11, 2019). Her work has appeared in The Believer, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in LA and thinks about images, words, paranoia, and elsewheres.
Ali Raz
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In Free Fall: Watching “Joyland”
“Joyland” joins a resurgence of Urdu films in recent years whose social realist orientation it both shares and disavows.
