Do you really form an intimate relationship if you only connect through gaming? Can it be, as Sam Mazer says, more intimate than sex? Here's what we think this book gets right (and wrong) about platonic relationships. Get ready for Nick going on a philosophical tangent about play, life and death. As always, spoilers ahead.

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Join us as we follow one day in the lives of Ruth and Pen, two women navigating a rocky patch. We dig into themes of infertility, relationships (romantic and otherwise!), neurodivergence, and how fiction lets us empathetically imagine the lives of others. Spoilers ahead as always.

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The Ferrante fever is real! We went in curious yet skeptical, and came out completely swept away. Join us as we dive into the gorgeous, unsparing prose of the Neapolitan Novels and the dark, richly drawn world of two girls coming of age in post-war Naples. As usual, spoilers ahead!

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