‘Anaïs in Love’ is balmy, half-baked romance
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The film positions its only point of intrigue as its lesbian romance, an insufficient measure given its lack of depth and inchoate narratives.
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Sally Rooney’s renaissance: How ‘Normal People’ captures early adulthood
Considering the brevity of her work, how is it that Rooney has swiftly become this acclaimed literary sensation?
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4 books to make you fall in love with reading this autumn
Each of these four books practically insist on being read by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate and a flannel blanket.
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Sally Rooney’s ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’: On loving, making art on the brink of societal rupture
The novel excels in the way it shifts focus from the individual and onto the relationship.
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The Daily Californian’s Arts Awards: Television of 2020
With Taylor-Joy’s gazing eyes and sharp wits pounding through the screen, the audience is transported to the front row of her countless intense chess matches. If you ever thought chess was boring, “The Queen’s Gambit” will surely convince you otherwise.
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My love-hate letter to the Italian Summer
The Italian Summer is an all-too-common trope in fiction, a dramatic foil to the misery of English spring showers and gray skies.
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They/them in Arabic
Stories from the Outside
It haunts me that certain aspects of my identity can only be articulated and understood in English — they’re basically invisible, or actually, nonexistent, when discussed in my mother tongue.
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Hulu’s ‘Normal People’ exudes vicious vulnerability
Intimacy, according to “Normal People,” is a living, breathing entity that exists between two people, suspended in a web of vulnerability.
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