culture
Writing Music About Being Black, Muslim, and Gay Helped Me Believe It Was Possible
I was told that the three parts of my identity were mutually exclusive. Here's how I learned that was wrong.
Sep 13 - Sadeeq Ali
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Why It Matters That Amazon Shipped Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” a Week Early
The retail supergiant is big enough to ignore embargo agreements—and that's bad news for indie booksellers like me
Sep 6 - Lexi Beach
books 
A Victorian Novelist Attempts To Write Queer Characters Without Getting Censored
They were simply good friends! Barely even friends. They had never met, actually.
Sep 6 - Colin Heasley
writing 
The Things My Dad Taught Me About Storytelling Won’t Show Up in an MFA
My father isn't a writer, but he taught me that so much of building a story happens off the page
Sep 5 - S. Bear Bergman
writing 
There’s More to Japanese Literature than Haruki Murakami
Go beyond the most popular Japanese writer in translation with these women authors
Sep 4 - Julia Shiota
books 
How a Book Trilogy About Killing God Helped Restore My Faith
I'd already lost religion when I found His Dark Materials, but the series gave me a new way to believe
Sep 3 - Isabel Cole
books 
Interactive Fiction Lets Diverse Characters Be the Heroes
Choose Your Own Adventure stories challenge the idea of a universal protagonist
Aug 29 - Jessica Xing
culture 
This Cookbook from 1942 Is a Textbook for Making a Better World
Revisiting "How to Cook a Wolf" in the era of climate change
Aug 29 - Abby Walthausen
books 
White Writers Pushed Me Out of Fiction and Into the Essay
Workshops made my stories feel so inauthentic that I switched forms altogether
Aug 27 - Aditi Natasha Kini
writing 
Why Launch a Videogame at a Bookstore?
'Eliza,' the visual novel by Matthew Seiji Burns, plays with the border between fiction and gaming
Aug 23 - Philip Sayers
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