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We Spread by Iain Reid review – a fine piece of weird fiction

A widow finds herself in a sinister care home, in this meditation on ageing, trauma and identity from the author behind I’m Thinking of Ending Things

The Guardian - UK

You need to watch the strangest sci-fi movie on HBO Max ASAP

The biggest misfire of Frank Oz’s career is still better than most other movies. Here's why you should watch 'The Stepford Wives' while you still can.

Inverse

Why "Stepford Wives" still resonates

Sure, suburban living turned women into robots, but this telling also reveals the complicity of husbands

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'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

The Conversation

Why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on.

The New Daily

Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick review

This brilliant exploration of psychological manipulation takes in both Mao’s China and the American dream

The Guardian - UK

Brainwashed by Daniel Pick review – do great minds really think alike?

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history

The Guardian - UK

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Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

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