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• Fight Night by Miriam Toews review

  by caruk guruk June 15, 2022
  Miriam Toews’s novels are often described as tragicomedies, populated by war survivors, and set in or around Mennonite communities where Toews, too, grew up. In works such as All My Puny Sorrows, following the relationship of two sisters, and the spectacular Women Talking, about cloistered wom...

• first Muslim superhero seeks more than just 'representation'

  by caruk guruk June 8, 2022
  Cast members Mohan Kapur, Zenobia Shroff and Saagar Shaikh open us on their MCU debut and what makes Ms Marvel relatable. When Marvel Studios announced that they were bringing their first Muslim superhero on screen, many had a jaw-dropping moment. But Ms Marvel cast members -- Mohan Kapur, Zenobia ...

• When will Marvel bring X-Men and Fantastic Four into the MCU?

  by caruk guruk June 6, 2022
  Bad news this week for those fans hoping to see John Krasinski confirmed as the new Reed Richards, after his sterling cameo as Mister Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Deadline’s Justin Kroll reports that Marvel is no closer to settling on a director for its Fantastic F...

• Does singing exert pressure on the heart

  by caruk guruk June 2, 2022
  Krishnakumar Kunnath aka KK, passed away doing what he loved – singing on stage. His going away suddenly and at a young age left thousands of fans grieving and questioning the circumstances under which he collapsed. While there is a melancholic comfort in knowing that a musician died doing wh...

• My Chemical Romance's comeback music is truly the antidote we n

  by caruk guruk June 1, 2022
  My Chemical Reaction's newly released The Foundations of Decay prima facie appears to be a return to their emo roots but is a sonically mature outing. In TheMusicThatMadeUs, senior journalist Lakshmi Govindrajan Javeri chronicles the impact that musicians and their art have on our lives, how they m...