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Reviews, culture writing, opinions, interpretations, events and poems — from the WordBred archive since 2016.

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  1. Culture

    Meditations on Love; Empirical or Idealist?

    What does it mean to love? The classical philosophical debate between empiricism and idealism can unravel two different traditions of love, loving and being loved. Empiricism is the view that…

  2. Reviews

    A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

    When a Prequel Does its Best- A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Potential spoilers. You have been warned. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set sixty-five years before the…

  3. Poems

    Aristotle’s Lullaby

    What if you could punch your brains from the insideA swinging logical uppercutRight under the amygdala.Such that, that the very foundations of those fluids shiver and die.A single punchRight from…

  4. Reviews

    The Runaway Jury | Review

    John Grisham has a reputation of either nailing a story right until to subterranean levels or simply falter in the roots and make a hash of things throughout. The Runaway…

  5. Culture

    Almost unbuttoning at an Irani Cafe

    When the Parsis first came from Kerman and other parts of Iran, they promised to dissolve into the already (and even then) bursting the seams of the city’s populace like…

  6. Opinions

    Rejection as Misrecognition

    Rejection in love and the way men tend to take it has often and quite rightly been seen as the manifestation of a form of male privilege. But rejection in…