Increasingly exhausting and contrived, Sophie Brooks’ contemporary 'situationship' comedy eventually runs out of steam.

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One of the quiet behaviors of a truly miserable person is that they set themselves up to fail by setting standards that are ...

Entertaining readers for the past fifty years, Stephen King has written a ton of iconic novels that still hold up to this day ...

The following first ran on CounterPunch at the height of the COVID pandemic in January of 2022. Are anti-vaccine ...

It is Saturday night at Yale. I am lying on the monstrous baby pink couch my suitemate found on Facebook Marketplace in a ...

All the spectacular 19 th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two. This time Towles has written a series of short stories along with a novella. The ...

He likes books, whereas she is a movie person ... Much of what happens after this point — which turns “Oh, Hi!” to a Gen-Z “Misery” of sorts — is frustrating, with both Iris and ...

These sorts of visual explorations are not too old; previously, the best we could do was to imagine them through books or experience ... forms of performance. The misery theatre deals with events ...