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  • Mr. Clarke, the Real Hero of Stranger Things

    Mr. Clarke, the Real Hero of Stranger Things

    He’s the teacher who encourages questions beyond the class assessment, who always gets his students to open the “Curiosity Door.”

  • How Gone Is My Valley?

    How Gone Is My Valley?

    It does us all a disservice to separate the Valley’s current industrial action from that of its natural environment, human history and broader political context.

  • Not Like Other Geeks

    Queen mother of lady nerds Margaret Atwood has reaffirmed her status as the OG Cool Chick Carol by contributing to an all-female nonfiction anthology called The Secret Loves of Geek Girls. As if we needed another incentive to support women…

  • Coding the Pages

    In Vikram Chandra’s eyes, programming’s a lot like penning a piece: When I first started programming, I was already writing my first novel, and the similarities became obvious right away: Both are iterative processes in which you construct bits of…

  • Monster Mash

    Two recent anthologies bring a literary touch to stories of the macabre.