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Kate CantrellThe Conversation |
Magda Szubanski’s books are not conventional celebrity memoirs. She doesn’t name-drop or frame her story as one of triumph.
Charles Spencer’s book is as much about him as about the sister he claims to speak for. Beneath the score-settling, it’s a story of a brother...
Periodic Bitch tells what it’s like to live with PMDD: an extreme, chronically understudied and widely misunderstood form of premenstrual illness.
What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?
Former child star Jennette McCurdy’s gross, gripping debut novel shows there is no single, correct way to engage with stories about female desire...
In her Netflix series, Vladimir, Julia May Jonas attempts to tame the slippery characters and weighty themes in her novel. That’s a pity.
Former journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto, about her ‘digital affair’ with politician RFK Jr, raises all kinds of ethical questions. Oh,...
Former journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto, about her ‘digital affair’ with politician RFK Jr, raises all kinds of ethical questions. Oh,...
For five decades, the image was attributed to Associate Press photographer Nick Út. But a documentary recently released on Netflix is challenging...
Nobody’s Girl is Virginia Giuffre’s inside account of the two years she spent as a ‘sex slave’ working for Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator...
In Elizabeth Gilbert’s shocking new confessional memoir, she falls in love with her dying best friend, enables her addiction – and once again...
The first Erin Patterson documentary, Stan’s three-part documentary Revealed: Death Cap Murders, depicts Patterson as a loner who craved community.
Merlynn Tong’s new play feels like it’s not sure if it’s a meditation on loss, or a musical comedy about reinvention.