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    What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading and viewing.

    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Babel or The Necessity of Violence, Sultana's Dream, La última copa/The Last Cup, and Brick.
    by Barrie Hardymon Jan 06, 2023 6 minutes
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Brendan and Nora Zehetner as Laura in <em>Brick</em>.

    This week, we witnessed a gray whale give birth, learned how to stay on track with New Year's goals, and found a way to declutter.

    Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

    Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang

    I did not want to have to explain this book to everybody, but I find myself in the position of being able to bring you this wonderful novel that is a little hard to explain. The book is Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang. It is a historical fantasy novel, and it's been compared to Philip Pullman's book, The Golden Compass. It's kind of easy to see why, as the novel takes place in a fictional Oxford University.

    This book has a system of magic, which is so special and so well told. In

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