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At the start of the millennium, Korean cinema made a huge global impact, in part thanks to gruesome revenge tales like Oldboy (2003) and I Saw the Devil (2010). While revenge never goes out of style, recent b...

There’s something about portals. Instant travel from one point to another, across the galaxy or across the universe, inevitably built by some vanished prior highly advanced civilization? It’s a persistently popular trope in science fiction, with ...

In Isabel Waidner’s fifth novel, As If, two nearly identical men encounter each other at possible turning points in their lives and offer one another a glimpse of what could have been if they’d made different choices. Just as t...

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We were hurried like a time-sensitive delivery from the limo through Royal Residence hallways. It was a strangely familiar routine: entering a grand building through its most industrial passages, flanked by a passel of staff. One went over the details again—this was...

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I KEEP MY SECRETS IN THE SOCK DRAWER, NEXT TO WINTER.
The hangers whisper rumors in a lemony clatter.
I FORGET WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO REMEMBER.

Dust rehearses sunlight like a patient babysitter.
My clock coughs politely, pretending it doesn’t matter.