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1 author picked Shanghai Tai Chi as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It was really original and deep research on a usually overlooked aspect of Shanghai's history - the interregnum between 1949 and the Cultural Revolution when everything changed, but some things didn't....

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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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