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His voice has an on-trend soothing quality, lending itself to music that is iconoclastic yet classic — rooted in his early influences, especially American R&B and soul, and interspersed with Japanese elements.

Such is the rub you may find yourself in with iconoclastic Spanish director Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude,” his first nonfiction film, an unflinching gaze at bullfighting, its hushed, ornate rituals and gruesome realities.

As a director, he enjoys boldly iconoclastic strokes whether staging new work, such as Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play,” or classic drama, such as Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.”

Born Thomas Eugene Robbins, the iconoclastic American author was known for his silly, irreverent novels from the 1970s and ’80s.

Writing from Highland Park, Tóibín concludes his report with a sad anecdote on the library of iconoclastic writer Gary Indiana that arrived in Los Angeles from New York on Jan. 7.