Books

Libraries are magical and sometimes mysterious places. As a librarian, I am frequently met with ideas that libraries are no longer relevant, particularly from people who don’t use their libraries. This is just one of the myths that librarians face. What’s more, the role of the librarian is frequently misunderstood. When I speak with people
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Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ “Nothing’s as it should be, Yaz. Too much out of the ordinary tonight.” Between The Flux, the dog, the new Companion, the Sontarans, the Swarm, his sister, the Outpost, the Doctor’s hunt for information about the Division, and the TARDIS malfunctions, ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ barely
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Sifting decades of horror television down to just a devil’s dozen requires discipline and ruthlessness. There can be no mercy. If a horror TV show once reigned supreme from a throne of grisly guts but now feels about as desirable an experience as a colonoscopy, it didn’t make this list. If another show spooked us
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This week’s roundup of book challenges and censorship attempts doesn’t dig into a couple of things. First, the political appeal of using censorship as a tactic for inciting fear and moral panic was already covered earlier this week, and second, the roundup will not be covering right-wing media’s bizarre claims that Attorney General Merrick Garland
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There’s something special about “that moment” in the horror genre. Whether it’s the scene from that movie that’s been burned into your head since childhood or the passage of that book you’ll always wish you couldn’t recite from heart, there are just times when horror is so perfectly distilled into a single moment that we
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