book-review
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7/10 In an era where so much film and television feels algorithmically assembled, loud, cynical and terrified of sincerity, Remarkably Bright Creatures arrives like a deep breath. Quietly devastating and unexpectedly beautiful, Olivia Newman’s adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel understands something many modern films have forgotten: audiences do not need constant spectacle to…
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Book Review History has a habit of sanding down its sharpest edges. Movements become moments. Radicals become footnotes. The people who did the organising, the drafting, the strategising get compressed into a paragraph, if they are remembered at all. In Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, Keisha N. Blain refuses that…
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There are historical novels that merely recreate the past, and then there are novels that make history feel alive enough to breathe against your neck. Joseph O’Connor’s The Ghosts of Rome belongs firmly in the latter category. Set against the brutal machinery of fascist Italy and Nazi occupation, the novel moves with the confidence of…
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