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“It was a story of white selling black, of black cultures “contaminating” white ones with a single cell in an era when a person with…
The Book Everyone is Raving about – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you…
My Favourite Murakami Novel – Kafka on the Shore
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads – at…
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Viewing Conformity from the Spectrum: Convenience Store Woman
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The Most Underrated Neil Gaiman Short Story
“And the people watching the biopic, as golden, as beautiful, as changed as the people on the beach, knew that that was the end of…