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    The True Happiness Company

    As a teenager, Veena Dinavahi was the kind of daughter most parents would kill for. She was heavily involved in extracurricular activities and thriving in her coursework—even taking upper-level ...

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    Self-help Cults

    Self-improvement is having a big moment. Life coaching is a multi-billion-dollar industry with more than 100,000 coaches practicing around the globe, self-help books are all over the bestseller lists,...

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    Women of War

    The invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, Pearl Harbor—everyone knows these pivotal battles from World War II. Fewer people, however, might be familiar with the battles that led to the ...

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    A Women in Resistance Reading List

    Suzanne Cope's Women of War details the efforts of four female resistance fighters in Italy during World War II, but it also highlights the efforts of countless unnamed women who supported ...

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    Vanishing World

    In the alternative version of Japan in Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World, the physical act of sex has become outdated—unnecessary and somewhat taboo. Marriages are purely economic arrangements, ...

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    Could Artificial Wombs Become a Reality?

    In her novel Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata presents an alternate version of the present, in which most children are conceived either via artificial insemination or using newly available artificial ...

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    Twist

    As Colum McCann's novel Twist opens, Anthony Fennell, a writer struggling with alcohol and career stagnation, has reluctantly agreed to write a long-form journalistic piece on the Georges Lecointe...

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    The Submarine Cable System

    Much of Colum McCann's novel Twist takes place on a cable repair ship sent to locate and fix a breakage in the underwater cables conveying the globe's digital information pathways. For many...

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    Blazing Eye Sees All

    Leah Sottile's Blazing Eye Sees All tells the story of Love Has Won, the cult started in the mid-2000s by Amy Carlson, a woman who called herself "Mother God" and claimed to be the reincarnated queen ...

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    The Lost Continent of Lemuria

    Amy Carlson, the leader of the Love Has Won cult, claimed to have been many different figures in past lives—Jesus, Cleopatra, and Marilyn Monroe, to name just a few—but one of her most ...

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    The Emperor of Gladness

    Ocean Vuong's second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens with nineteen-year-old Hai about to jump off a bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut when he hears a voice demanding to know what he's doing. ...

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    How to Become a WWE Star

    BJ, one of the characters in Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness, aspires to become a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment — more commonly known as the WWE. Merriam-...

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