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August 1, 2016
Surviving the Script
There’s a story I know by heart. It’s a monologue I once performed often, about a woman named Laura.
The Sex Dimension
The 2023 film How to Have Sex follows three sixteen-year-old girls on their first holiday abroad together, intent on a bender of drink, dancing, poolside…
Schooling Myself
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.
Little-known fact: Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize-winning Irish novelist, poet and playwright, was also a prolific standardized-test writer. What follows is a selection of SAT questions from his archive.
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