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Leah Marilla Thomas

Culture

Focus Gaming Apps Are Challenging Us to Be Kinder to Ourselves

Games like 'On-Together' and 'Love and Deepspace' are broadening what a productivity app can look like.
Books

Does Katniss Appear in Hunger Games Prequel Sunrise on the Reaping?

Sunrise on the Reaping tells the story of Haymitch’s catastrophic Games.
Books

In New Hunger Games Book, Haymitch Has a Crucial Connection to Lucy Gray

Here’s everything we learn about Lucy Gray in Sunrise on the Reaping, out now.
Politics

It Sucks That The Bush-Era Politics Of ‘Wicked’ Are Still Relevant

Anti-intellectualism, cult of personality, and propaganda…sounds familiar!
Movies

Songbirds and Snakes Star Josh Andrés Rivera Knows People Like His Yelling

The actor talked to Teen Vogue about his experience playing Sejanus in the Hunger Games prequel.
Movies

This 'Songbirds and Snakes' Theory Argues Katniss Is Related to This Character

Enter the Maude Ivory theory.
Culture

Katniss & Lucy Gray: A Tale of Two Very Different Hunger Games Heroes

Put simply: Katniss is a hunter in a performance and Lucy Gray is a performer in a hunt.
Movies

In “The Little Mermaid,” Prince Eric Finally Gets a Personality

And Ariel becomes a more fully-formed character as a result.