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Ocean Vuong began writing The Emperor of Gladness as a way to process his grief after losing his mother to cancer in 2019. The book was published in 2025 by Penguin Press. Set in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, the novel follows...

Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit (released in 2017) nominally tells the story of the 1967 Detroit Race Riots and the horrible Algiers Motel incident in which police officers murdered several unarmed people - both white and black. More broadly, though, ...