The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Breaking Down the Ending of ‘The Price of Confession’
[ad_1] The Price of Confession, a masterfully paced crime drama, challenges the assumptions we make about people and questions the biases held by people in...
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Breaking Down the Ending of ‘The Abandons’
[ad_1] Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Abandons There are plenty of juicy conflicts in The Abandons, but none bigger than a land war between two...
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How The Secret Agent Appeals to Brazilian Collective Memory
[ad_1] I can’t remember the man’s name, or the year we met, but I remember the conversation we had. It was the early 2010s, at...
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New Doc Goes Inside the Bedrooms of School-Shooting Victims
[ad_1] CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman has been reporting on school shootings in the U.S. since 1997, starting with a shooting at Pearl High School...
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Breaking Down the Unexpected Twists and Turns of ‘Eternity’
[ad_1] Warning: This post contains spoilers for Eternity Death comes suddenly in Eternity, but the story that follows moves with a slower rhythm. After bickering...
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The Story Behind the Controversial Documentary ‘The Stringer’
[ad_1] A new documentary raises questions about who really took the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 photo of a naked girl and other children screaming and running...
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The Real Shakespearean History Behind ‘Hamnet’
[ad_1] Warning: This story contains spoilers for Hamnet. Many scholars have attempted to read personal history into the writings of William Shakespeare. One work that...
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Stranger Things Season 5: Surprise Episode Title, Explained
[ad_1] Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episodes 1-3 of Stranger Things Season 5. Following a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, Stranger Things is at long last back...
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The Real Inspiration Behind ‘Rental Family’
[ad_1] The plot of Rental Family, directed by HIKARI and starring Brendan Fraser, reads almost like science fiction. Out of necessity, Phillip (Fraser), an out-of-work...
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Review: Train Dreams | TIME
[ad_1] For a relatively young country, America has inflicted an enormous amount of suffering on human beings. Maybe there’s some cosmic payback in the fact...
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The True Story Behind Selena y Los Dinos
[ad_1] Thirty years after the pop star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was murdered by Yolanda Saldívar at a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, Netflix is releasing a...