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Few musicals have enjoyed a reputation as gloriously complicated as Chess. For decades, it has occupied a peculiar place in
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Rachel Khong’s My Dear You is the kind of short story collection that feels deceptively light when you start and
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There’s something unsettling about how we consume stories about serial killers. We know their names, we study their childhoods, and
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There’s a certain point in any desk setup where the default monitor stands just stop cutting it. They eat up
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Set between the early days of the pandemic and the late 1990s in Tokyo, Mieko Kawakami’s Sisters in Yellow follows Hana
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Book Review: ‘Strange Girls’ by Sarvat Hasin
There’s something almost feverish about the kind of friendship Sarvat Hasin writes in Strange Girls. Not warm. Not easy. Not
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‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ at Avon Players Is a Delightfully Deadly Musical Comedy
There are musicals that ask audiences to suspend disbelief, and then there is A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,
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Book Review: ‘So Old, So Young’ by Grant Ginder
This one hit me square in the millennial chest. I read Grant Ginder’s So Old, So Young in about a
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Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth was my introduction to sapphic novels, and it completely changed what I look for in
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