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Our Top Reading Recs for Coping With Your Existential Crisis

Sick of the AI slop that’s infiltrated every corner of the internet? Desperate to ditch the corporate rat race? Stressing about the cost of living while billionaires shoot rockets into space? We’ve got book recs for that! If the current state of the world has you spiraling into existentialism, swap…

BookTribAugust 13, 2026

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“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

What can a novel written in the early 1940s teach us today about national identity? Plenty, especially when a German director like Christian Petzold portrays it as a kaleidoscope of time, place, person and politics. “Transit,” his adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel (New York Review Books Classics) of the same…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 14, 2019

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5 Science-Fiction Reads Exploring the Nature of Existence, Consciousness and Humanity

I have mostly spent my scholarly career writing about nostalgia in the media, which can clearly be more of a past-focused endeavor. This entailed looking at the ways different movies, television shows, and video games ask us to view our pasts, often in service of creating lifelong consumers of characters…

Ryan LizardiMarch 11, 2022

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

5 Science-Fiction Reads Exploring the Nature of Existence, Consciousness and Humanity

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