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Americans only just woke up to the rocket car in the last decade. The sleek racing cars of Formula One hit 220 mph on straights, all while drivers battle the other 19 cars on the track. It’s the ...

Agnes is trying to be OK. In the first chapter of Eva Victor’s directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, an English professor living alone in a rural town, Agnes (Victor ...