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18 Best Books About the Afterlife: Novels, Series, Memoirs and More
18 Best Books About the Afterlife: Novels, Series, Memoirs and More
Afterlife books often have a theme of regret, both over sins and missed opportunities.
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How to Write a Book Review: Our Formula for Excellence
How to Write a Book Review: Our Formula for Excellence
A good book review is a useful book review.
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Don’t Give Up on November
Don’t Give Up on November
Like all progress, we justify the consequences.
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‘Empire of Illusion’ Review: Is Our Idea of America a Farce?
‘Empire of Illusion’ Review: Is Our Idea of America a Farce?
Has America been a declining empire where media and cultural illusions deceive residents into a false sense of literacy, love and happiness?
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‘Cowboy Bebop’ Manga Review: Like Reading a Few More Filler Episodes
‘Cowboy Bebop’ Manga Review: Like Reading a Few More Filler Episodes
Debuting in Monthly Asuka Fantasy DX magazine in 1998, writer Yutaka Nanten created 11 new stories for the Bebop crew spread across three volumes.
Written by Freddy Millan

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18 Best Books About the Afterlife: Novels, Series, Memoirs and More

Afterlife books often have a theme of regret, both over sins and missed opportunities.

How to Write a Book Review: Our Formula for Excellence

A good book review is a useful book review.

Don’t Give Up on November

Like all progress, we justify the consequences.

‘Empire of Illusion’ Review: Is Our Idea of America a Farce?

Has America been a declining empire where media and cultural illusions deceive residents into a false sense of literacy, love and happiness?

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Manga Review: Like Reading a Few More Filler Episodes

Debuting in Monthly Asuka Fantasy DX magazine in 1998, writer Yutaka Nanten created 11 new stories for the Bebop crew spread across three volumes.

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A Review of ‘The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge’

‘Democracy Matters’ Review: Has Democracy Ever Worked?

‘Possessed by Memory’ Review: Harold Bloom’s Farewell

‘Great Circle’ Book Review: Two Narratives, Only One Worth Reading?

‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Review: Facts, Conspiracies or a Bit of Both?

‘Uzumaki’ Manga Review: Junji Ito’s Spiral Into Horror

‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Octopus Marcellus and His Humans

‘The Midnight Library’ Review: Clear Themes, Unclear Rules

‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’ Review: On Accepting Yourself and Others