Five years ago, I packed my bags and moved to America from Australia. Since I moved here, I’ve gotten married and had two children. Child the Elder is 3 years old and Child the Younger is 9 months. Although I do think of the house and neighbourhood we live in as home, America as a
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This Batwoman article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3. After weeks of wondering what happened to the missing heiress-turned-superhero when her plane was shot down (and her body was not found), the third episode of Batwoman Season 2, “Bat Girl Magic,” seemingly ended with confirmation that Kate’s okay—and from an unlikely source. Safiyah (Shivani
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It still might be a little while before we’re able to go back to the movies again. Thankfully, with its list of new releases for February 2021, Amazon Prime is bringing the theater home. The movies are the real appeal this month. Amazon’s offerings are highlighted by two original films of note. The first is
This post was originally published in our mystery/thriller newsletter, Unusual Suspects. Sign up for it here to get mystery news, reviews, deals, and more! Hi mystery fans! I thought I’d mention mystery writers who also write in other genres because it’s a great way to explore in your reading life—if you already love a writer’s
This The Little Things analysis contains spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. The Little Things can be seen as a tainted police procedural with its murky ambiguity and troubling ending. But it’s also the story of a man for whom the allure of a charismatic serial killer goes too far. After all, serial killers make
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By all accounts, the upcoming series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds intends to be a return to the first principles of the Star Trek franchise: Hope, optimism, and a sense of collective possibility. From its supposedly more episodic narrative style and sunnier overall outlook to the servant-hearted captain at its helm, these particular voyages of
Sometimes you’re born into a family, and sometimes you have to create your own. That becomes even more apparent as soon as we come of age and define our own values, which are sometimes separate from those that raised us—or as we discover a family when we don’t have any nearby. These 15 YA books
Someone must have left the freezer door in the morgue open, because grisly reminders of the past are thawing before our eyes. You can see it this weekend with the release of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things, a throwback to the days when movie stars hung out at crime scenes instead of in spandex,
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If you haven’t been following the simply incredible story involving the WallStreetBets subreddit using GameStop stocks to beat hedge funds and large investors at their own game (and make a bundle in the process) I highly recommend you start doing so. This bizarre saga isn’t over, and it will likely have repercussions that will be
This post was originally published in our YA newsletter, What’s Up in YA. Sign up for it here to get YA news, reviews, deals, and more! In the latest episode of Hey YA, Hannah brought up a book set in the 1970s and how that’s a time period we don’t see portrayed much in YA
This Walker review contains spoilers. Walker Episode 2 Walker’s “Back in the Saddle” sees this show starting to find its groove after the introductory pilot. While the first episode was very much set up and angst, this episode is about expanding on everything that we’ve seen already and working on reconnecting a family broken by
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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous season 2. The second season of the animated series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, released on Netflix on Jan. 22, answered a lot of lingering questions from season one. But another cliffhanger ending has left fans roaring for more. With a whole island to explore and a
The major influx of women publishing mysteries and thrillers in the past 15 years has meant that we’ve gotten a lot more interesting, diverse crime novels that challenge the status quo and look at crime fiction a bit more broadly. That’s important, especially since the genre tends to be preoccupied with stereotypes about female characters
From the harbor of Oldtown to the top of the Wall, it is known throughout Westeros that all men must die. That they must, yet the phrase may soon be amended to include, “and all geek properties must live on… forever.” It certainly appears to be the takeaway from the news that a Game of
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From the very first promo, where we saw Kate Kane give first money and then her gold watch to a young woman panhandling, Batwoman has concerned itself with homelessness and housing. In Ryan Wilder (Javicia Leslie), however, Batwoman has a new protagonist with lived experience of homelessness. Unlike a lot of television shows that use