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Why CLOVES' Latest Single Will Send You Soul Searching
CLOVES is only 22, but she can already tell you a lot about ennui. In her new single “Wasted Time,” the Australian singer-songwriter's hau
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How Roseanne Barr Killed
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Yesterday began as a normal day for Roseanne Barr. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, the comedian was on one of her typical wee-hours Twitter kicks. I
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This
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During the Spring Fling dance in the final episode of season 2 13 Reasons Why, the camera zooms in on the DJ's hand as he switches the record to the &
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Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: There Is ...
Excuse my pun, but there is a bomb in Gilead – and nothing will be the same again. At the end of last week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Ofglen (
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Why Saudi Arabia’s First Woman Director Only Makes Movies About T...
The heroines in Haifaa al-Mansour’s movies share the same antagonist: restrictive societies. Wadjda, the 1o-year-old Saudi protagonist of al-Mansour'
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Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: "Texas Roadkill Chili"
While watching this episode of Billions, I felt that I was watching two separate shows about powerful people navigating a morally ambiguous, dangerous worl
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How Liz Garbus Became A Fly On The Wall During The
New York T...
On November 22, 2016, Liz Garbus realized, with a jolt of clarity, the subject of her next project. In the past, Garbus, an acclaimed documentarian, had pr
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The True Story Behind
Mary Shelley
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Can you name all the works of pop culture that draw from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus? Of course not — there are way t
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Did
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Earlier this year, I spoke to Ane Crabtree, the costume designer of The Handmaid’s Tale, about this season’s costumes. Crabtree mentioned that the colo
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The Handmaid's Tale
Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: They Went...
America still exists in Gilead. It lingers in the minds of handmaids, Marthas, and Econowives. Hell, it even lingers in the mind of Serena Joy (Yvonne Stra
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A Breakdown Of Every Dramatic Deposition In
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Book Club
Proves That Women's Sexuality Has No Expiratio...
The summer that Fifty Shades of Grey came out, I passed by a group of women sprawled on outdoor chaise lounges, reading E.L. James’ bestseller while thei
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Jog Your Brain On What
Fahrenheit 451
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Lately it seems that every other work of pop culture is dystopian. Teen girl battles fights her peers to the death in a televised gladiatorial event. Teen
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Why Curtis Sittenfeld Will (Probably) Never Write a Melania Trump...
Perhaps, instead of having a therapist to decipher our murky inner lives, we should all have Curtis Sittenfeld write us as characters in her short stories.
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The Subversive Role Of Religion In
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When Nick Blaine (Max Minghella) was a kid growing up in Michigan, he probably never thought he’d be married to a child bride in a mass ceremony. Yet the
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Welcome to Word to the Wise, where Refinery29 sits down with the superstars of the literary world to talk about your new, soon-to-be-favorite books. “The
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I wish Wasting Away With the Waterfords were a reality TV show, so the characters in the Handmaid’s Tale could finally say what they were thinking, inste
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15 Things Meghan Markle Can't Do Now That She's A Royal
In July of 2016, Meghan Markle found her prince. After being set up by a mutual friend, she and Prince Harry had their first date in a private room in Lond
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Every Time A Normal Wooed & Married A Royal: Movie Edition
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