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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

Thirteen Essential Books by Trans and Queer Writers,
Reviewed by Trans and Queer Writers
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Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama

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Karan Mahajan on Literary Tradition, Trump, and Writing Multiple Points of View

Anna North in Conversation with the author of The Complex

On the Genius of Frances Burney, Jane Austen’s Most Important Literary Predecessor

By A. Natasha Joukovsky

Beyond “Women’s Fiction...” On the Quiet Brilliance of Barbara Pym

By Kerry Clare

Crying in the Multiverse: On the Potential of Possibility as a Literary Device

By Genevieve DeGuzman

Tales From Ground Zero of Europe’s Heroin Epidemic

By Jonathan Tepper

Understanding the Complex History of Anti-Asian Racism

By Scott Kurashige

Philip Schultz on Unavoidable Mortality

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Andrew Martin on How to Manage Exposition

By Andrew Martin

Swiping and Writing: On Hinge as Muse

By Katherine J. Chen

Am I the Asshole For Trying to Pitch Editors and Agents at Crowded AWP Parties?

By Kristen Arnett

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Murder At the Supreme Court: Who Really Killed Roe v. Wade?

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Matters of the Spirit: A Pastor, a Noblewoman and a Mysterious Bout of Melancholy

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