Dating Deviance
Between celebrating how far we’ve come and preparing for how far we have to go, now is a good time to brush up on your queer literature. Over at Lit…
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Roxie Pell
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Roxie Pell is a student at Wesleyan University, where she writes for Wesleying and The Argus and tweets hilarious nuggets of pure wisdom @jonathnfranzen.
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…
A Tipping Point
These days, a trade nonfiction title that manages to sell probably does so by trafficking in broad questions and big ideas, often explored through pop science or panacea: From William…
Stacks on Stacks
Consumer culture impossibly demands that we acquire possessions ad infinitum while condemning the clutter these objects inevitably produce. Over at Lit Hub, Susan Harlan surrenders to the stack: After all,…
The Right Balance
New Common Core standards adopted by over forty states require member schools to begin teaching more nonfiction in English class. The Times looks into the pros and cons of pairing literature…
To Boldly Code Where No Man Has Coded Before
Be honest: you learned a few tags, dabbled in Wordpress, maybe a little web design here and there; suddenly “light HTML” is appearing on your resume and you’re making potential employers…
On Location
Sometimes where we read can be just as affecting as what we read. Over at Lit Hub, various writers describe their places of preference: Is there one among us who…
Lost in Translation
Last Thursday, Charlie Rose tried to talk to Karl Ove Knausgaard about My Struggle. Or Karl Ove Knausgaard tried to talk to Charlie Rose. They tried.
Examining Culture
Analysts have generally ignored these texts, as if poetry were a colorful but ultimately distracting by-product of jihad. But this is a mistake. It is impossible to understand jihadism—its objectives,…
Fear and Looking
It’s not like it’s the first time the book has come around in a different medium, so why not comics? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a deeply visual…
Beyond Vanilla
Natasha Gornik’s photographs of people involved in New York’s BDSM scene capture the honesty and community that are essential to practicing kink. Check out her work here, and read about…