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Annihilation

May 20, 2025

A movie that is the dream of the book; a book that feels like a dream itself.

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Barabbas

April 15, 2025

The notorious criminal who was released for the Passover has his life explored by a Swedish writer and an Italian producer.

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Monte Walsh

February 18, 2025

The end of the West, the end of the Western.

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Dark Dame/Maisie

January 21, 2025

An incomplete entry again, because an impossible-to-find book again.

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“Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”

December 17, 2024

Maybe we should all just stay home for Christmas.

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Washington Square/The Heiress

May 21, 2024

Why did they keep making Olivia de Havilland play canonically plain characters?

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The Phantom Tollbooth

April 16, 2024

How Chuck Jones interpreted the illustrations of Jules Feiffer and the words of Norton Juster.

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The Bird’s Nest/Lizzie

March 19, 2024

Shirley Jackson, a woman who knew a thing or two about mental illness, covers Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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Baker’s Hawk

February 20, 2024

A Boy and His [Animal], one of the most upsetting genres in fiction.

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The Land of Oz/Ozma of Oz/Return to Oz

January 16, 2024

Oz is an absolutely bonkers place, if not quite as dark as the '80s made Gen-X believe it was.