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		<title>5 Modern Stories Inspired by The Devotion of Suspect X</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;What if love becomes dangerous precisely when it looks most admirable?Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X leaves us with an unsettling problem. Ishigami gives almost everything for Yasuko. His devotion can feel beautiful, frightening, selfless, obsessive, and morally indefensible at the same time.After exploring those questions through the characters and then through scholars and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Devotion of Suspect X Explained by Psychologists: Is Ishigami’s Love Really Love?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X is often praised for its ingenious mystery, but the questions that remain after the crime is solved are far more human.For this discussion, we brought together perspectives from psychology, ethics, philosophy, cultural interpretation, and literary criticism to examine the novel’s most difficult questions: Why do readers want to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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