Peter and Ivan. Peter is a 32-year-old Dublin lawyer, torn between his 23-year-old girlfriend, Naomi, and his ex-girlfriend, Sylvia, with whom he is still very much in love. Ivan, a former chess prodigy who, much to his brother’s frustration, lacks some social faculties, ...
Take Sally Rooney’s first chapter: It’s clear that Marianne and Connell, two Irish students about to be swept into a decade-long romance, are attracted to one another, but the shy young man’s disposition and the garish young woman’s teasing are framed by thoughts, not dialogue or ...
a 21-year-old student at Trinity College in Dublin. Her perspective is so singular, as anyone's point of view is, that it's unreliable. As a reader you have very little understanding of how other characters perceive Frances, and it's hard to know what to make of the other characters ...
In“Creation Lake,”a 30-something government agent uses her wits and looks to infiltrate an anarchist collective in rural France. Calling herself “Sadie,” she makes her inroads by seducing a rich Parisian filmmaker, and slowly falls under the sway of the collective’s mentor,...
TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance. But what is already clear is that the app has changed social media for good—and in a way that will make life harder for incumbent social apps. In less than six years TikTok has weaned the world off old-fashioned social-networking and got it hooked...
Who among us hasn’t wondered if saying the right thing would have gotten that person to stay, or how things would have turned out if we’d gotten the chance to reconnect with an old flame? Ultimately, the show works for the same reasons the book did: because it’s a strikingly (and...
own kind of erasure. The name has become such shorthand that it’s how we protect ourselves from the horror of what actually happened to a 14-year-old child. That the name is listed in a long string of things — Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Birmingham Jail — is its own kind of ...
Ten Things I Hate About You puts a new spin on an old story. (Image: Buena Vista Pictures) Friends to lovers tends to work best when there’s another big conflict or project distracting one or both of the main characters, so they don’t get together until the very end. This is bas...
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The high level of skill and stamina required to deliver a compelling, consistent, and professional read for the entirety of an audiobook means that the task of bringing your book to life is best left to a trained voice actor. Not just any old voice actor, either — find the perfect ...