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Seeing in the Dark: On Bats as Companions, Protectors and Muses

Seeing in the Dark: On Bats as Companions, Protectors and Muses

Vanessa Chakour Considers the Essential Role of These Much-Maligned Flying Mammals

By Vanessa Chakour | September 24, 2024

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All

“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”

By Deirdre Sugiuchi | September 24, 2024

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Dreaming a Way Into the Past: On Unearthing Family Secrets in Taipei

Kim Liao Explores Her Grandfather's History as a Freedom Fighter and Dissident in Taiwan

By Kim Liao | September 20, 2024

I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Do NOT Want to Hang Out With My Fans: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | September 19, 2024

Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

Class Defectors vs. Working Class Traitors: What JD Vance Could Learn From Édouard Louis and Annie Ernaux

Ann Larson and Alissa Quart on the Power of the French Sociological Memoir

By Ann Larson and Alissa Quart | September 18, 2024

Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

Abi Maxwell: “This town felt so conservative, its social norms so crushing. I needed someone who would help me swim against them.”

By Abi Maxwell | September 17, 2024

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Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

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Daisy Hernández: “I knew from my own experience that being seen is a powerful way to be loved.”

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Loving White Boys While Black: On Beauty, Desire and Learning Self-Love

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Lester Fabian Brathwaite Considers the Literary and Cultural Socialization of Young Black Queer Men

By Lester Fabian Brathwaite | September 11, 2024

Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

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Itoro Bassey on the Gift of Being Understood

By Itoro Bassey | September 6, 2024

Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

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Michele Herman on Bringing the Golden Rule to Her Classroom

By Michele Herman | September 5, 2024

Korean Revolutionary Kim San on Moral Courage in the Face of Imperialist Violence

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“To rise above oppression is the glory of man; to submit is his shame.”

By Kim San | September 5, 2024

Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza

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Nahil Mohana on the Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear

By Nahil Mohana | September 4, 2024

Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

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Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

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