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Shopping For a Boy? Give Him a Book About a Girl
Teenage girls read books about everyone else—here's why everyone else should return the favor
Dec 5 - Shoshana Akabas
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Why Three Generations of Americans All Have the Same Favorite Cookbook
An ode to "Joy of Cooking"
Nov 27 - Abigail Weil
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Being Indian Is Not a Superpower
My characters are Native because they're Native, not because their Native-ness is going to let them save the world
Nov 27 - Stephen Graham Jones
writing 
Why All Americans Should Read “Celestial Bodies”
The Man Booker International winner has nothing to do with Americans, and that's precisely why we need it
Nov 26 - Carrie V. Mullins
books 
How Faux-Documentary Audio Dramas Trick You Into Scaring Yourself
From "War of the Worlds" to "Limetown," audio fiction has leveraged the reporting format to amp up the eeriness
Nov 21 - Julia Shiota
culture 
The Stories That Helped Me Embrace the Rural South
I didn't think writers came from places like my hometown—and then I found Larry Brown
Nov 21 - Caleb Johnson
books 
Your Book Might Not Sell, and You Have to Live With That
I didn't write my book for the money, but I wasn't really prepared for it to go nowhere
Nov 19 - Abigail Rasminsky
writing 
Finally, a Music Novel for Middle-Aged Tape Collectors
So many music novels are about rock musicians—it's time for consumers and collectors to get their due
Nov 13 - Tobias Carroll
books 
How Literary Translation Can Shift the Tides of Power
As a translator, I need to think carefully about whose words get to be heard and understood
Nov 12 - Jen Wei Ting
books 
How Lolly Willowes Smashed the Patriarchy by Selling Her Soul to Satan
Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1926 novel is about a woman being smothered by expectations, and how she breaks free
Nov 7 - Kristen Hanley Cardozo
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