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Introducing Bonus Material

How Books Become Who We Are

Fiction That Explains Our Facts

Forbidden Knowledge

"Eternal Sunshine": Lo-Fi Memories

This Great Absence

"Ex Machina": Through the Looking Glass

The Map Is Not the Place

"Catch-22": Winning With Words

Beauty in the Broken

Re-watching "The Farewell"

"Cat's Cradle": Man Cannot Live on Truth Alone

What Comes Next?

"Bonjour Tristesse": A Moral Chess Board

Ordinary Heroism

Re-watching "The Fountain"

Put Your Desk in the Corner

"This House of Grief": True Crime On Trial

What To Do With the Time You Have (Left)

Fractured Attention

On Collecting Books

"Minari": American Dreams

Three Ways to Watch "Jaws"

Re-reading "Jaws"

What Story Do You Live By?

"Shiva Baby": Asking Difficult Questions

AI "Music" and What Makes Us Human

The Return to Religion ~ Part Two

The Return to Religion ~ Part One

"Strange Heart Beating": By Any Other Name

Those Were the Days

What Are Soundings?

"Memoirs of a Woman Doctor": Sound and Fury and Hope

The Story Never Stays the Same

What Goes Into the Grave

"After Yang": Human and Humane

An Unanswerable Question

On Remembering Lost Worlds

"Clear": No Man Is an Island

Long Live the Death of the Novel

"Eastbound": Taking Language Seriously

Looking Beneath the Surface

"American Fiction": An Entrée, or a Main Course?

The Written Word, Heard

How Art Tames Monsters

"The Holdovers": They Do Make 'em Like They Used To

How to See Others

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