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The Next Conversation Book Review: Stop Winning, Start Connecting
You're not bad at communicating—you're just trying too hard to win. This book helps you put down the need to be right and start hearing the other person.
Read storyThe 5 Love Languages Book Review: Why Your Efforts Are Missing the Mark
Love isn't a feeling you have—it's a skill you practice in their language. This book won't make you more romantic—it will make you less blind.
Read storyBook of Lives Review: The Woman Who Became Her Own Story
A wickedly funny, deeply human look at the woman who wrote "The Handmaid's Tale."
Read storyThe Zorg Review: Why We Forget Atrocities on Purpose
One massacre. One trial. The story that changed history but almost got erased.
Read storyJohn and Paul: A Love Story in Songs review
This review asks: What if the greatest songwriting partnership was built on friction, not harmony?
Read storyNight Magic Book Review: The People Who Stay
A nature book that makes you want to turn off every light and step outside.
Read storyEveryone Who Is Gone Is Here review: the faces we refuse to see
A quiet meditation on the faces we walk past every day and the policies that put them there.
Read storyThe Freaks Came Out to Write: What We Lose When Our Tribes Vanish
Tricia Romano's "The Freaks Came Out to Write" is a eulogy for the kind of place that gives us permission to be weird.
Read storyGrief is for People Review: When You Lose a Friend and a Necklace
A stolen necklace and a dead friend: Sloane Crosley makes grief feel weirdly hilarious.
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