There are songs that sneak into life and refuse to leave, and “Running Up That Hill ” by Kate Bush is one of those. The first time I heard it in the context of Stranger Things , it hit me not as nostalgia, but as a punch to the chest. It’s not just about music– it's about empathy, sacrifice, and imagining what it would take to trade places with someone else just to understand them. That’s exactly what Season 5 of Stranger Things is doing with every single one of its charact

“Without faith, there is no refuge.” Brutal, unnerving, and poignant, The Unworthy (2025) is a novel bordering the genres of speculative fiction and post-apocalyptic horror, and one which grapples with the question: is the loss of one’s humanity a worthy price for survival? The story follows the narrator—an unnamed woman in a dark and secretive convent known as the Sacred Sisterhood—as she recounts her life through a series of diary entries “...in whatever she can find—discar

Is True Crime Ethical? Throughout humanity’s literary and artistic history, tragedy has remained one of the most popular genres. There is something so cathartic about watching the downfall of somebody else’s life, and clearly this obsession with the tragic–and often macabre–is one that has extended far beyond our current fixation with the drama and devastation characteristic of the true crime genre. However, since the resurgent popularity of true crime in the 2010s, this fasc