The online magazine Guernica, which I co-founded twenty years ago, published an essay in March that sparked an uproar among readers, staff and media, both mainstream and social. Article continues below A day after its publication, I got to read the essay that provoked so much debate and ill feeling, a meditation on empathy during
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL
Go to the corner of Bedford and Romer. You’ll see the yellow mansion that used to be a girls’ boarding school. Down Romer a bit, on the land that used to be the yellow mansion’s English garden, is the giant new Cape Cod with a ludicrously long front walk at whose end every Halloween a
María Mariposa by Karla Arenas Valenti, illustrated by Ana Ramírez González María lives in a brand new country, and on the first day of school, a gift arrives on her windowsill from Mexico: a mariposa. The butterfly carries the memory of her old home on its wings, and it helps her feel more brave. Feeling
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 2009, Frank McCourt dies. Article continues below View original source here
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On Wednesday evening, I opened up the New York Times homepage—something I do with fevered regularity these days as Gaza coverage slips further and further down the pecking order—and began to scroll. I scrolled past stories about the ghoulish pageantry of the Republican National Convention, about JD Vance’s Machiavellian ascent, about the timeline and fallout
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you the spreadsheet I keep of the queer books that have come out so far in 2024 — more than 600 of them, in fact. I’ll let you in on
TODAY: In 1866, in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the steamer Governor Higginson encounters a mysterious sea creature. During the encounter, the creature shoots two enormous columns of water 150 feet into the air. Did anyone ask us? No. Did we do it anyway? Of course. We compiled 71 of the best
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July 19, 2024, 1:53pm When I think of America, some of the first things that pop into my mind are the domestic affairs of the landed elites, dancing a cotillion with your social equals, and enjoying that all-American treat: Mr. Bingley’s white soup, made with USA’s finest egg yolk, cream, and almonds. That’s America according
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books I hardly ever re-read books. It’s not that I am against
July 19, 2024, 11:23am In case you missed it: Keanu Reeves has written a novel. Yes, it’s true: the internet’s boyfriend has teamed up with China Miéville, one of the great speculative fiction writers of all time, to produce a novel set in the world of BRZRKR—the comic book series he also created—and we here
This year’s quiet Pride was not quiet because the world became more accepting. Pride was less contentious because of the quiet/soft/self-censorship of Pride itself. “While threats and harassment were not an increased issue for me this year, the “soft censorship” of Pride from libraries, schools, and other institutions has negatively impacted every LGBTQ+ author I
July 18, 2024, 1:32pm Over 100 of the country’s most prominent literary translators—including Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky, Peter Cole, Jennifer Croft, Damion Searls, and Natasha Wimmer—have signed a damning open letter to the PEN America Board of Trustees, calling for the transfer of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund endowment to another institution: We write now out of
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: The Readers Make Their List The content bonanza that is
July 18, 2024, 11:47am PEN America United has won a tentative, first bargaining agreement with PEN America management after a long, 21-month negotiation. The announcement also comes two weeks after the entire membership voted unanimously to authorize a strike if it became necessary. We’re still waiting to see what the terms of the agreement will
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