And aren’t our real-life romantic complications bewildering enough?
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
For a summer thirst-quencher, shake up a Bee’s Knees or an Airmail.
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Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
With multiple overtime games, upsets and close calls, Week 2 provided a lot of reasons to shake up this week’s edition of The Athletic 136, just not at the top.
This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
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Book Marks
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
There doesn’t seem to be anything untoward or disconcerting about this interest in physical health and well-being.
The subject appears to have been blown away by time, just like Yugoslav literature was when Tanja was supposed to be teaching it.
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Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
The snug drawstring closure and four fixed buckles that attach to each chair leg help keep the cover from blowing away in the wind while keeping dirt and debris out.
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Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Sep. 2025
The dynamic and popular preacher discomfited many in his parish with his increasingly pointed critiques of inequities and corruption in the city.
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Time,
Time,
22 July 2025
From this chamber poured a seemingly incessant stream of sordid details, discomfiting puzzle pieces that added up to a portrait of a man who used his fame and fortune to reduce his female victims to chattel.
For nearly 20 years, astronomers have been perplexed by the strange disk of dust and debris circling Fomalhaut, a bright star just 25 light-years from Earth.
His recipe calls for muddling sweet Sun Gold tomatoes and fresh basil, plus a smidge of salt and sugar until juicy; then stirring in gin, vermouth, and ice until well-chilled.
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