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
books 
essays
How I Learned to Embrace Jamaican Patois, the Language of My Youth
To get past the shame I was taught to feel about the creole I grew up with, I had to rediscover it in books
Dec 4 - Donna Hemans
books 
What It Takes to Leave the Westboro Baptist Church
For Megan Phelps-Roper—and for me, leaving my restrictive Hasidic community—rebellion starts small
Dec 3 - Frimet Goldberger
books 
Why Three Generations of Americans All Have the Same Favorite Cookbook
An ode to "Joy of Cooking"
Nov 27 - Abigail Weil
books 
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 
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 
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
writing 
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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