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The Land in Winter (2024) Summary: a Moving And Must-read Book
When a patient dies on your watch and the country freezes to a halt, how do you keep a marriage,…
Flashlight by Susan Choi: Complex, Heartbreaking Portraits
Grief scrambles memory, and Flashlight by Susan Choi shows how a family spends decades trying to see in the dark.…
Motherland Julia Ioffe: Definitive, Unflinching History
Motherland by Julia Ioffe is the feminist history of modern Russia I wish I’d had years ago—a book that solves…
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Review – a searing, essential reckoning
The book “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad is a scorching, timely examination…
Book Review: Unfettered by John Fetterman: Scandals, Setbacks, Strength
Unfettered by John Fetterman isn’t just a political memoir; it’s a manual for surviving public shame, private despair, and a…
Enshittification Review: Shocking Harms, Real Solutions
If you’ve felt your favorite platforms turn from delightful to downright hostile, you’re not imagining it. Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why…
ENTERTAINMENT
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…
What do you call a comedy that quotes Dostoyevsky like a stand-up routine and turns pacifism into slapstick? For me,…
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…
