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What is “Weird Girl Tale”?

All Access Bonus: Bonus Customization Nominated for Best of the Century So Far Did you browse the best adaptations of the century so far and wonder about those titles that didn’t make the final list? All Access members, read on to find out! So many amazing TV shows, movies and web series were nominated, and

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Men's Fashion

A tale of noughties nostalgia – enduring style

By Reginald Jerome De Mans* I wore a pair of Gurkha trousers that day. Those wide-waisted eccentricities that looked so cute on friends’ fit posts, their criss-crossing straps were so spectacularly uncomfortable, they reminded me of the old sower/reaper meme: “I’m wearing Ghurka pants: Haha fuck yes!!! Yes!! I have to take them off and

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Review of Father Alberto and the Flying Girl by Timothy X. Attuck – A Tale of Medieval Madness Imagination

IIn 1474, in a fictional location in Southern Europe, Father Alberto arrives from Jormel Abbey, where he has failed in his ambition to become a manuscript illuminator in its famous scriptorium. He is the new parish priest of the villages of Hem and Long, whose congregants are generally “piebald and misguided”, but not the most

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Review by Tayari Jones – A horrifying tale of motherlessness books

AAnnie and Vernice (or Niecy, as Annie calls her) are “foster friends” raised in their hometown of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in 1950s America. The heroes are defined by their motherlessness and their individual tragedies and their individual drives to escape pre-written destinies. In this haunting novel of motherhood and sisterhood, Tayari Jones writes about unknowability –

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Weapon X Re-invents the Classic Marvel Tale

Barry Windsor-Smith was one of Marvel Comics’ most popular creators. Part of his popularity was due to his style. His comics neither looked nor read like other comic books. It is important to clarify that Windsor-Smith’s style was not exclusively defined by her artwork. Windsor-Smith approached storytelling very differently from the standard Marvel house style

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