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Mary Oliver has died. The poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1984 and a dozen other awards and honorary doctorates over the years, died...

Sitting in an undergraduate Chicanx/Latinx Literature course, about seven years ago, is the first time that I heard Gloria Anzaldúa’s name. I was studying under another...

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When states suppress ideas, we condemn it. What should we do when companies do the same? With some 687 million books sold in the U.S. in 2017,...

The National Book Award finalist highlights some of her favorite non-male authors Min Jin Lee photo by Elena Seibert Like many of the best generational novels (sorry, Gabriel...

How being actor and documentarian helped Rabeah Ghaffari write her debut novel “To Keep the Sun Alive” Rabeah Ghaffari has had an exceptional career. She’s an actor,...

In a courtroom in Zharkent, Kazakhstan, in July 2018, a former kindergarten principal named Sayragul Sauytbay calmly described what Chinese officials continue to deny: a vast...

2016–2018 made a lot of us feel like we were in the wrong timeline, but parallel universe books have been popular for many years. Whether the...

Who needs heroes? These past couple of years the rise of antiheroines in YA fiction has become bigger…and better. Sometimes our heroes in YA SFF are...

If you read romance, you know how it goes: words get new sexual meanings, because EUPHEMISMS ARE FUN! And then the word is ruined in your...