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Last Tango

by James Conaway
Posted on August 22, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration.

A bad potboiler is not made better by stylish writing; it is made worse. 

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In a Hotel

by Cameron Carr
Posted on August 16, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: Shutterstock, Inc.

There is a familiar feeling here: existential dread, impending doom, a light dose of despair.

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The Egoists and the Altruists

by Mark Dunbar
Posted on August 8, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Alamy, Shutterstock.

The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.

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In Through the Out Door

by Richard Hughes Gibson
Posted on July 31, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: Michael Odelberth/Unsplash.

An abandoned—or abandoning—god might also reappear.

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The Elon Effect

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on July 25, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Shutterstock photos.

Are we both perpetrators and victims of the Elon Effect?

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Man Thinks, God Laughs

by Jason M. Wirth
Posted on July 19, 2023 in THR Web Features
Image: Darius K/Unsplash.

Kundera’s novels are expansive and support irreconcilable yet arguably valid points of view. 

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