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With three more ACOTAR books on the way, here's how we would rank the existing five entries -perhaps in a slightly unpopular order.

It’s November 1977. Three men are flying in a private plane from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., for a gala event at Jimmy Carter’s White House. They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in ...

Henrik Pontoppidan's 'The White Bear' gives us two novellas that work in conversation with each other. Both feature burly, uncouth protagonists who endure episodes of childhood trauma and develop a ...

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Spoiler alert! We're discussing major plot details about the new "Wuthering Heights" movie. Stop reading now if you want to go in cold. Get ready for the wrath of the readers. Emerald Fennell’s ...

One day in January 1766, a scruffy visitor turns up at Prince of Wales’ Fort, a remote trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company in what is now northern Manitoba. Patterson is a fur trader, but on this ...