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From a film made in Adelaide for less than $10,000 to gory and haunting classics, here are some flicks that will keep you up at night Horror is the go-to genre for buried secrets and things weve tried to evade and cant. But sometimes horror is also about catharsis, or just a good time.

Psilocybin can help to heal trauma, users say, but the racialized history of drugs in the US has long fueled fear Enter a room and notice the scent of wood. Palo santo, a unique bark that stems from the tropical forest of Ecuador, burns brightly. A statue of a dark-skinned African woman sits in the

Not long ago, in Manhattan's Chinatown, I watched a young woman texting on a terrifyingly sophisticated piece of electronics while waiting to pay for an abacus and a purple glass Buddha. I thought of her several times while reading Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector. For among the novel's astute observations is the curious fact that,

This concise, emotive debut novel skilfully describes a black British womans life informed by racism Within a neat 100 pages, Natasha Browns precise, powerful debut novel says more about Britains colonial legacy and what its like trying to exist within that as a black British woman than most could achieve with three times the space.

Rare phenomenon of bioluminescence is caused by blooms of plankton which glow to evade or distract predators On the shorelines of New Zealands north island, shores have been lit up by the glowing aurora of the sea: blooms of plankton that glow blue-green after nightfall.