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The wife's tragic backstory every single fucking time

There have to be better ideas!

The happy couple, in better times (before one of them was being psychologically tortured by a corporation-cum-cult). (Credit: AppleTV+)

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Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood

Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood

Why do people love Daniel Kraus' novels? Maybe it's because he's not afraid of a big metaphor.

The cover of Beth March Returns from the Dead, cropped to just the first three words and the face of a woman covered by flowers

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Plus: The e-book of Woodworking is on sale too? Remember Woodworking?

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven

Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven

This week: the enthralling and the exhausting kind of become one singular thing.

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era (preview)

Atlanta saw America more clearly than nearly any TV show of its era (preview)

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