Literature
Socialist Anxiety: Sally Rooney’s New Novel Reveals an Author Trapped By Herself
The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch.
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Where There's Smoke: Sherman Alexie and the Toll of Literary Tokenism
Alexie was the singular voice of Native American literature. Maybe he shouldn’t have been.
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Trauma or Tragedy: Disability Representation in Children’s Books Has a Long Way to Go
It isn’t easy to find a children’s book or young adult novel that accurately depicts disability.
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More Than Nostalgia: “Twilight” Lovers Are Cautiously Optimistic about “Midnight Sun”
Twilight is not a perfect series.
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Andrea Gibson’s “Lord of the Butterflies” Celebrates Constant Transformation
In their fifth collection of poetry, Lord of the Butterflies, Andrea Gibson resists tidy narratives in favor of dramatizing a life that’s vibrant with constant transformation.
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Bitch in a Box: Creepy Holidays
These picks will satisfy everyone on your list who is more “strange and unusual” than “holly and jolly.”
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20th Century Boy: In the 1930s, the Word “Transsexual” Didn't Exist in the English Language. So Laura Dillon Had to Label Herself.
No literature at all existed to guide those female-bodied people who wished to become men.
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Dear Lane: “How To Be Alone” is Vulnerable, Funny, and Profoundly Healing
How To Be Alone gave me closure for trauma.
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Turning Fury Into Fuel: Three Women Authors on Publishing’s New Investment in Anger
Infiltrating the toxic architecture, learning and exposing its mechanics, cutting the wires, and burning it all down is my type of Trojan Horse chess play—being strategic and precise, turning fury into fortitude.
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Political Revisioning: How Men Police Women’s Anger in Writing Workshops
Our bodies and the way we are visibly coded determines if our anger can be “justified” in the eyes of the viewer.
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