The fantasy series offers a pioneering Black hero—and a model for how white people can decenter themselves
How understanding this cinematic trope can illuminate COVID-era exploitation
Lessons for current activists and allies from Nina Revoyr's 2003 literary crime novel "Southland"
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas" is weird, funny, subversive, and undercelebrated in English
We may fear losing control under lockdown, but giving up control has been a transformative experience for centuries
Albert Camus diagnosed society's disease in 1947, and it's much bigger than one virus
The first lady of West Coast letters needs to share that honor with the Mexican diaspora
Marilynne Robinson’s novel shows how changing the country starts with changing yourself and the people closest to you
In Elizabeth Spencer’s 1972 novel, the past is present
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