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Strong Ground by Brené Brown review
Strong Ground: Brené Brown’s Best Guide to Daring Leadership

If your team looks busy but isn’t breaking through, Strong Ground shows why—and how—to stop playing not to lose and…

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Profound Analysis of Painful Memory

Grief leaves you feeling like the world has been unplugged mid-sentence; Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking shows how…

We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons
We Should All Be Feminists book: essential, hard-hitting feminist truths- 10 lessons

In a world still shaped by invisible rules and inherited expectations, We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie…

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived and Eye-Opening History in Our Genes

If you’ve ever wondered what your DNA “really says” about who you are, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever…

Of Beards and Men by Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Of Beards and Men: a compelling, game-changing cultural history of beard

If you think beards are a vibe, Christopher Oldstone-Moore shows in Of Beards and Men they’re really a vote—about masculinity,…

Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks review
Communion: The Female Search for Love is the Essential Guide for Women’s Self-Love

Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks is a field guide for women who sense that “more” is…

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Pretty Woman 1990 Review

Pretty Woman 1990 Review: Fairy…

What makes a corporate raider and a Hollywood Boulevard sex worker the beating heart of a modern fairy tale? Pretty…

Love and Death (1975): The Shocking Genius of Woody Allen's Best Philosophical Satire

Love and Death (1975): The…

What do you call a comedy that quotes Dostoyevsky like a stand-up routine and turns pacifism into slapstick? For me,…

Manjhi The Mountain Man ewview

Conquering the Unconquerable: How Manjhi…

What does it mean to be truly unstoppable? Is it a quality reserved for mythic heroes and legendary figures, or…