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The Weekly Muse: Ready to get in the festive spirit? 🎄

The Weekly Muse: Ready to get in the festive spirit? 🎄

Need stories to get you through this holiday season…?
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Amita Kala
The Weekly Muse: Immigrant stories

The Weekly Muse: Immigrant stories

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” -Warsan Shire
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Amita Kala
The Weekly Muse: Impacts of historical foreign occupation

The Weekly Muse: Impacts of historical foreign occupation

Bumpy road ahead, proceed with caution!
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Amita Kala
The Weekly Muse: Once upon a time…

The Weekly Muse: Once upon a time…

What stories will you tell the next generation?
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Amita Kala
The Weekly Muse: Banned Books Week

The Weekly Muse: Banned Books Week

They’re really gatekeeping books? Cringe.
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Amita Kala
The Weekly Muse: Māori Language Edition

The Weekly Muse: Māori Language Edition

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of Aotearoa
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Amita Kala
Book Review: Fiona and Jane (and representation and delight)

Book Review: Fiona and Jane (and representation and delight)

Something about Fiona and Jane hooked me from the very first page.
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Nicole Horowitz
Russian Doll: S1 vs. S2 (the good, the bad, and the ugly)

Russian Doll: S1 vs. S2 (the good, the bad, and the ugly)

Russian Doll season 1 quite simply took me hostage. Here’s what I thought of season 2, and whether it measured up to S1’s high standard.
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Shelbi Polk
The Chair: A glimpse of academia grappling with ‘wokeness’

The Chair: A glimpse of academia grappling with ‘wokeness’

With The Chair, showrunners Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman bring audiences a satirical take on campus politics. We’re confident any…
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Kyle Argento
Book Review: Exploring a wartime appetite for not just bread, but roses too

Book Review: Exploring a wartime appetite for not just bread, but roses too

You know George Orwell for “Nineteen Eighty-Four” but author Rebecca Solnit thinks we have much to learn from his private gardens, too
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Nicole Horowitz
Book Review: Heart and Hearth is a warm and cozy comfort read

Book Review: Heart and Hearth is a warm and cozy comfort read

Heart and Hearth is a lovely novella about the world of witches, perfect for reading on a cold and rainy day.
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Aisha Lelić
Book Review: A doom-free take on climate change is exactly what we need

Book Review: A doom-free take on climate change is exactly what we need

We’ve reduced gender disparity in education and halved child mortality, why can’t we fix climate change?
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Alice Rich
Small Places by Tiffany Allan

Small Places by Tiffany Allan

Small Places left me pondering about the hardest moments in my life. Even in the downright crappiest of times, there was light
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Aisha Lelić
Representation matters: a shared vision of belonging in entertainment

Representation matters: a shared vision of belonging in entertainment

How our Aotearoa New Zealand-based startup, Narrative Muse, is working to build connections between under-served audiences and the screen…
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Brough Johnson
Book Review: Reading Crying in H Mart when you’ve cried in H Mart

Book Review: Reading Crying in H Mart when you’ve cried in H Mart

When I, a Jewish, Chinese-American nonfiction writer with a penchant for playing the guitar, first learned about Crying in H Mart, a memoir…
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Nicole Horowitz
Do the Oscars Even Matter?

Do the Oscars Even Matter?

How Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Top to Bottom is the Only Way to Keep Award Shows Beautiful and Relevant
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Debbie Holloway
Getting intimate with desire in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs

Getting intimate with desire in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs is navel gazing at my favorite, very feminist level. The women in this novel agonize over their desires…
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Shelbi Polk
I Will Survive the Viruses: COVID-19 and Racism.

I Will Survive the Viruses: COVID-19 and Racism.

Being Black in America is exhausting.
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Marialuisa Monda
The Assistant — Review

The Assistant — Review

Released at a time when the entertainment industry is finally addressing the abuse within its walls, The Assistant shows that abuse played…
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Matthew Radway
Halloween Horrors: Our Top 5 Scariest Films To Watch Now

Halloween Horrors: Our Top 5 Scariest Films To Watch Now

As the season of ghosts and ghouls comes upon us, there’s never been a better time to check out some of the underrated horror films in the…
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Matthew Radway
Banned Books Week: What Does Censorship Really Mean?

Banned Books Week: What Does Censorship Really Mean?

This year’s Banned Books Week started Sunday September 27th. In previous years, many of my colleagues at Narrative Muse have heard me say…
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Debbie Holloway
Witty Barbs and Corsets Fly in a Brilliant Period Drama

Witty Barbs and Corsets Fly in a Brilliant Period Drama

In Harlots, Moira Buffini and Alison Newman serve audiences an age when London was the place to be for the sex trade: the 1760s.
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Kyle Argento
Review: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Review: Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Have you ever come home from a trip with friends wishing you could run away and start a new life together?
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Jess Ducey
Watch, Read, Eat — Six Editor’s Picks from Narrative Muse Matchmaker

Watch, Read, Eat — Six Editor’s Picks from Narrative Muse Matchmaker

Right now, a lot of people are at home, a lot of the time. And some of us have a lot of time for reading, watching… and eating.
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Jessie K
Book Review: A bold statement and a lot to think about in The Bold World

Book Review: A bold statement and a lot to think about in The Bold World

A stunning autobiography exploring gender and identity in the context of a Black mother who learns her toddler is transgender.
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Alice Rich
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