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Book Review

A ghost that refuses to be quiet: on Ferrante's newest

Ferrante turns domesticity into excavation, and friendship into a kind of violence you keep returning to.

Swagata Bose  ·  Feb 2025
List

10 books for people who think in images

Visual thinkers, photographers, architects — books written for the way your mind processes the world.

Swagata Bose  ·  Jan 2025
Recommendations

If you loved Piranesi, read these next

Books that share that quality of strangeness which feels inevitable rather than performed.

Swagata Bose  ·  Jan 2025
Screen Picks

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Film
All of Us Strangers

A film that holds grief like water in cupped palms — tenderly, knowing it will spill.

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Series
Slow Horses

The spy thriller that makes every other feel performative. Gary Oldman, devastating.

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Anime
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Meditative, melancholic, and quietly revolutionary. Time as a narrative weapon.

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Film
Past Lives

Celine Song's debut is a masterclass in restraint. What's unsaid is the whole film.

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Swagata Bose — copywriter, cultural obsessive, and founder of Bookwitch.