All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2026
The loudest of those skeptics still get treated as oracles, even as the downside bets behind them quietly decay toward nothing.
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