People & culture
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Night of the Mannequins: A Slasher That Cuts Inward
[ad_1] Stephen Graham Jones’ Night of the Mannequins is a novella that is bitingly sharp and deeply unsettling. These characteristics are displayed in ways beyond gore. They have to do with proximity. Proximity to a mind bent on justification. Proximity to a voice that sounds completely reasonable, until the moment it isn’t. Tor Nightfire is…
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The 19th-Century US home that embodied the super-rich
[ad_1] George was set apart. Jenkins tells the BBC, “He doesn’t necessarily fit into a kind of Vanderbilt mould. He doesn’t really participate in New York society. He doesn’t inherit any of the business responsibility for his family’s railroad interests. But he starts collecting from a really young age. And so we see in the…
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1200+ historic ‘Survey of India’ maps
[ad_1] The Survey of India was established in 1767 – just a decade after the Battle of Plassey (1757), which reshaped political power in the subcontinent. In other words, mapping came on the heels of conquest, as British authorities sought to document and manage the land they now ruled. What began as military and administrative necessity soon became…
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Time, Memory, And The Home We Remember
[ad_1] Do you ever wonder about the futures that never were for yourself? Do you catch yourself sometimes pondering what could have been a different outcome of a decision years ago? Do you ever imagine the choices you’d make from an option you never thought you had? In The Home We Remember by Hamnah Shahid…
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15 Best Books About Friendship (Fiction & Nonfiction)
[ad_1] Follow us on Social Media Last Updated on February 12, 2026 by Jella Erhard Explore the most touching, hilarious, and useful fiction & nonfiction books about friendship and best friends for adults and young adult readers. PIN ME for later Must-Read Books About Friendship * Disclaimer: Some links on AsianaCircus.com are affiliate links. If…
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The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists W…
[ad_1] It doesn’t take too long a look at the almost surrealistically clean-lined buildings of Walter Gropius to get the impression that the man wanted to usher in a new world, especially when you consider that many of them went up before World War II. Take the Bauhaus Dessau building, which, though completed exactly a century…
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Marty Supreme, Table Tennis, and the Cost of Gaining the Who…
[ad_1] “Most of freedom and of pleasureNothing ever lasts forever.Everybody wants to rule the world.”—Tears for Fears “This is what you want/This is what you get”—Public Image, Ltd. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) doesn’t know how to slow down. Slowing down would feel like surrendering, like failure, like a total loss of purpose. He’s here—in this…
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The Addams Family to St Elmo’s Fire: 12 of the best alternat…
[ad_1] Alamy Julie & Julia (2009) Nora Ephron wrote When Harry Met Sally and she wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, so you might not think of this as her most romantic film. But Julie & Julia is a buttery, unconventional love story. On the surface, it’s a time-lapsed fantasia of beautiful food, but beneath…
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You Have To Let Them Bleed and Its Lovely Darkness
[ad_1] You Have To Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer is a carefully curated descent into intimate horror. So when I had the opportunity to read this collection early, I was chomping at the bit. These stories understand that fear is not always a spectacle. Sometimes it is a lived condition. Let’s talk about it.…