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Laura Cook Kenna

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On the Passing of Tom Clancy and his World

My elegy for Clancy and the era of US global confidence his writing both captured and helped to create as appeared in USAToday, October 8, 2013.

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On “The Book of Gin”

My book review of Richard Barnett’s book as appeared in The Washington Times, December 13, 2012.

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Big Little Lies Tells the Truth

How the new HBO murder-mystery series gets motherhood right.

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‘The Beguiled’ Reveals the Cracks in Our Imagined Selves

Sofia Coppola’s Cannes winner is all about the inevitable gap between who we are and who we claim to be.

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Charles Dickens Still Haunts Christmas

The Man Who Invented Christmas immerses viewers in six weeks of breakneck creativity during which Charles Dickens wrote perhaps his most beloved work. Originally published at christianitytoday.com, December 1, 2017.

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‘The Good Place’ Imagines an Eternity of Ethics Lessons

The NBC comedy serves up an unusual take on the afterlife with a side of fro-yo, hold the religion.

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The Crown: Balancing Family and Calling Is a Royal Pain

The Netflix series focuses on the pressure around the monarch’s marriage.
originally published at ChristianityToday.com December 2, 2016

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‘Atomic Blond’ Delivers Female Action without a Hero

After seeing the new spy thriller, I still don’t know what a female action hero looks like

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On the Appeals of Deadliest Catch

My essay about Captain Elliott Nesse, personal drama, and capitalism as appeared on Rare.us, April 23, 2013.

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