Daniella Mestyanek Young’s Uncultured was difficult for me to read for reasons that had less to do with the particulars of her childhood and more to do with what I recognized underneath them. I also grew up in a cult, although my experience was very different from hers. What felt familiar was the loss of freedom of… Read more

I went into The Rivals of Amziah King expecting a straightforward crime thriller. What I got was something much stranger and more layered, and by the end, unexpectedly moving. The beekeeping is not a quirky backdrop here. It is a culture, a livelihood, and eventually a way for the film to talk about loyalty. I… Read more

Theo of Golden by Allen LeviPublished by Atria Books. There is something almost mythical about Theo of Golden. Theo arrives in the small Southern town of Golden as an outsider, seemingly appearing from nowhere. He begins buying pencil portraits of local residents from a coffee shop and returning them to the people depicted. It sounds… Read more

There is something wonderfully normal about Pixar’s Turning Red, which is a strange thing to say about a movie where a thirteen-year-old girl turns into a giant red panda. Beneath the chaos, fur, and embarrassment, the movie is really about one of the most ordinary and complicated tasks of adolescence: figuring out who you are… Read more

I first read The Night Circus in 2019, and before I dive into The Starless Sea, I wanted to go back to the story that has been rattling around in my head ever since. This isn’t a fresh-from-the-final-page review. It’s a look at what stuck with me, what changed with time, and what I see… Read more

Tara Westover’s Educated stayed with me because I did not read it from a comfortable distance. I also grew up in a cult, although my experience was very different from hers. What I recognized was not the exact structure of her upbringing, but the underlying architecture: the gradual loss of freedom of self. One difference stood out… Read more

Introducing Block Patterns WordPress block patterns offer a powerful way to create predefined block layouts, enabling users to quickly design pages and posts with a consistent look and feel. These patterns are essentially collections of blocks that are pre-arranged and configured, which you can insert into your posts and pages. Key notes Moreover, the WordPress… Read more

Pixar’s Purl is a vibrant, deceptively colorful short film that tackles two incredibly heavy, intertwined topics: workplace inclusion and mental health. At first glance, the setup is cute: a cheerful ball of pink yarn starts a new job at a fast-paced finance firm. But the narrative quickly exposes an environment that is, frankly, uglier than… Read more