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“I was guilty as soon as I was accused,” says Tom Robinson to Atticus Finch. “I get called an optimist a lot. What I don’t get...

How stories about children swapped from the fairy realm helped me navigate being transgender A s a kid I imagined my real home was some magic...

Today the Republic of California, as a couple of dozen settlers christened it in 1846 during the Mexican-American War, again feels like a breakaway state, with...

After getting so much buzz for a debut novel, there can be a lot of pressure on the second one. We’ve all heard of the “sophomore...

We all (a lot of us anyway) know and love the Harry Potter series. One of the best parts of said series are all the quirky, charming,...

For starters, I want to give a big shout out to Jessica Pryde who introduced the idea of Romance Tropetonite, and without whom this obsessive, long-ish...

I can’t believe it’s been two years since Carrie Fisher died. She seems more necessary and vital than ever, and I’d like to think her spirit...

To the Editors: Jed Rakoff’s interesting review of Joel Richard Paul’s new biography of John Marshall suggests that Marshall’s opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)...

Part I: Creating Your Goals I imagine that most people’s bookish New Year’s resolutions revolve around an amount of reading such as “read x number of...

To the Editors: Stephen Greenblatt contrasts to ill effect Catholic punishment in the afterlife with that of what he alleges is the rabbinic version. According to...