Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?
We’ve known all along that, Joe Biden’s pleas for “unity” notwithstanding, he would get precious little cooperation from Republicans. Beyond the courtesy of confirming most of...
7 Books That Show the Full Breadth of the Adoption Experience
The literature I loved as a child was full of orphans: Ballet Shoes, Oliver Twist, The Boxcar Children, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, Daddy...
Teen Writers Deserve Better Than the Teen Writing Scene
A few weeks ago, I spoke on a virtual panel at Phillips Academy Andover called “Life After Teen Writing.” This title might seem confusing—how can there...
Panel Mania: ‘The Thud’ by Mikael Ross
Told with an endearing combination of empathy and humor, Mikael Ross’s The Thud is the story of Noel, a young boy with development disabilities who hears a...
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” Is a Spy Thriller Where the Real Enemy Is Colonialism
The promise and problems of the protagonist of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s two novels—2015’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer and 2021’s sequel, The Committed—spring from his two faces....
Canceling My Book Deal Was the Best Career Move I’ve Ever Made
I started querying agents for my memoir, Negative Space, in 2012, after two years of writing and revising. I got a few rounds of passes, including...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Telling Human Stories Through Poetry
At the Oklahoman, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses her collection of poetry, The Age of Phillis, which imagines the life of poet Phillis Wheatley, honoring her rich...
Our Relationship is Doomed in Every Universe
“The Volunteer” by Lucy Ives Some people employ a theory of parallel universes to explain time travel. Maybe I am one of them. If you ask...
Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness
On Christmas Eve, 2020—a year and two weeks after voters handed his Conservative Party a landslide election victory—Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, fulfilled his central campaign...
Labour’s Leader in the Wilderness
On Christmas Eve, 2020—a year and two weeks after voters handed his Conservative Party a landslide election victory—Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, fulfilled his central campaign...
