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Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.

'Honkai: Star Rail's Kafka has a couple of loose screws. Here's one piece of lore that you might've missed about the Stellaron Hunter.

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name:

The Prague-born artist, who made wildly experimental art under the nose of the communist authorities, began casting her weirdly entrancing sculptures from children’s party balloons

“When you’re in that system, you literally get the wrong information so many times. I stopped believing anything”

The Long Summer of 2022 began in May, when the abortion opinion draft leaked, and continued through a series of brutal rulings and congressional hearings

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth…

If we show our children pictures of enemies with "sharp pointed teeth," Kafka told us, they "run into our arms"

Given how firmly it closed its circular plot, and the relatively peculiar particulars of its narrative — "relatively" since it ran on an engine oft-lifted from "Groundhog Day" — it's somewhat surprising to see a second season of "Russian Doll," the excellence of its 2019 first season notwithstanding. In that…