Doing No Harm: A Look at Writing Suicide and Self-Harm in Fiction
Trigger warning: This post will discuss suicide and self-harm, and ways these subjects are portrayed in fiction and the media.The Society of Authors, the UK’s trade...
Title Trend: The Occupation’s Daughter
“The X’s Daughter” is an intriguing title trend that I have noticed for years.I call it a trend, because I feel like I’ve seen more and...
How Gail Carson Levine Helped Me Love Myself
Like any good middle class ’90s baby, I am a devoted fan of Anne Hathaway. Not Shakespeare’s wife, although she rules too, but the doe-eyed screen...
3 Upstate New York Hauntings Made for Comics Adaptations
The exact geographical boundaries of the region dubbed “Upstate New York” are a matter of debate: those from the City apply the term to everything that...
5 YA Books About Elections Hitting Shelves in 2020
Petrograd, Russia: 1917. Seventeen-year-old Katya’s life has been turned upside-down by years of war with Germany. Russia is losing the war, and soldiers are deserting in...
Everyone Is Buying Novels About Epidemics: Critical Linking, March 11, 2020
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by “More than 70 years later, the global threat...
JavaFX 14 focuses on stability and lays groundwork for the future
JavaFX 14 is here and brings a lot of bug fixes and a manageable amount of improvements. Most importantly, this release is on schedule, like clockwork....
The Status of Object Storage
Last week NVIDIA announced the acquisition of SwiftStack, an object storage startup that, in the last year, refocused most of its work on high performance and...
Samsung Galaxy S20: How to Disable the Screenshot Toolbar
The Samsung Galaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra all show a toolbar at the bottom of the display immediately after you take a screenshot. The bar...
How to Disable Firefox’s Fullscreen Warning Message
Whenever you fullscreen a video in Firefox, a warning message appears for a few seconds and then slides off the screen. While its primary purpose is...
