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The Silver Book by Olivia Laing review
The Silver Book by Olivia Laing is a Flawed Yet Fierce, Unmissable Fiction

The problem The Silver Book solves: How do you live, make art, and love freely when fascism, homophobia and spectacle…

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
The Art Thief Michael Finkel: Shocking True Crime Masterpiece Review

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession shows how one man’s passion for beauty…

Don't Believe Everything You Think summary: painful myths, bold peace
Don’t Believe Everything You Think analysis: pain, calm freedom

Most of us don’t need more thoughts—we need relief from the ones already screaming in our heads. Don’t Believe Everything…

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan review
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan review: haunting, healing small-town drama

In Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, the glossy postcard myth of small-town America is quietly ripped open to show how one…

The Christmas Stranger
The Christmas Stranger by Richard Paul Evans is Heartbreaking Yet Uplifting

Every December, millions of people quietly dread Christmas because loss has emptied the chair at the table, and The Christmas…

The Merge by Grace Walker review
The Merge Grace Walker: a Shocking, Haunting Debut You Must Read

When memory fades, and the future offers a radical escape, how far would you go to never say goodbye? In…

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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…