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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…

Salvation: Black People and Love be bell Hooks review
Salvation: Black People and Love Gives Honest, Healing, Power Lessons

Love is not a luxury for Black life—it’s infrastructure. This review of Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks…

ENTERTAINMENT

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…