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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

You may know author John Green from popular YA books like Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down, or his more recent adult nonfiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed. Now, in his 2025 release Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green writes about an infectious disease–a disease that is curable, yet […]

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“Kneecap” by Rich Peppiatt

“Kneecap” is a new film about the Irish hip-hop group Kneecap, from Belfast. I had never heard of the group prior to watching this movie. Actually, I had no idea what the film was about–I had just heard it was good. “Kneecap” stars the three actual members of the group Kneecap, and tells the story […]

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The Jellyfish by Boum

The Jellyfish, translated from French and written by Montreal-born writer Boum, follows 20-something Odette as they start to experience the sudden appearance of a jellyfish in their eye. They visit the optometrist only to be told that they have a jellyfish in their eye and there’s nothing to be done. Soon, they have two. Then […]

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“Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir

Does anything truly stay dead? At the far edge of the cosmos ruled by the Emperor sits the Ninth House, a lonely planet of dwindling life. It is the responsibility of the necromancer heir to the House to save it, but the Reverend Daughter, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, can’t do that alone, no matter how much she […]

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“Unreal Unearth” by Hozier

Irish singer-songwriter Hozier’s third studio album metaphorically aligns the artist’s experience isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic with Dante’s descent into the nine circles of Hell as depicted in his “Inferno.” Sixteen tracks map out the singer’s journey, from the moody, ethereal beginning of Purgatory with “De Selby Part 1”, to the powerful, devotional love ballad […]

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“Love & Whiskey” by Fawn Weaver

Jack Daniel is a household name, but Nathan “Nearest” Green, Daniel’s mentor and first master distiller, was obscure for much of the company’s history. Born into slavery, Green was instrumental in developing the distilling process for the iconic brand, and his descendants are employed by Jack Daniel Distillery to this day. Love & Whiskey chronicles […]

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“Skinamarink” Written and Directed by Kyle Edward Ball

Siblings Kaylee and Kevin are regular kids, living with their single dad. But when they wake up one night to find all the doors and windows in their house gone and that their father has disappeared, the two struggle to make it through the night by themselves while the force that manipulates their home starts […]

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So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

Sloane hates the idea of aging; she dreads looking in the mirror and seeing new wrinkles. When her husband books a surprise birthday weekend getaway for her and her best friend, she’s not exactly in the best mood to be reminded she’s getting older. Naomi is a bit of a wild child, she loves to […]

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“I Was a Teenage Slasher” by Stephen Graham Jones

Told by Tolly Driver, a teenager trying to just get by in a desolate small town in West Texas in 1989, I Was a Teenage Slasher turns the genre upside down and tells the story from the perspective of the vengeful killer and not his victims. How does one become a slasher? How do slashers […]