Corporate Censorship Is a Serious, and Mostly Invisible, Threat to Publishing
When states suppress ideas, we condemn it. What should we do when companies do the same? With some 687 million books sold in the U.S. in 2017,...
An Iranian Family Saga That Reads Like a Movie
How being actor and documentarian helped Rabeah Ghaffari write her debut novel “To Keep the Sun Alive” Rabeah Ghaffari has had an exceptional career. She’s an actor,...
Min Jin Lee Recommends 5 Books By Women
The National Book Award finalist highlights some of her favorite non-male authors Min Jin Lee photo by Elena Seibert Like many of the best generational novels (sorry, Gabriel...
Storystorm 2019 Day 17: Nina Victor Crittenden Gets Punny
by Nina Victor Crittenden Are you a fan of puns? I sure am! I grew up in a really punny family so puns have always been...
‘Reeducating’ Xinjiang’s Muslims
In a courtroom in Zharkent, Kazakhstan, in July 2018, a former kindergarten principal named Sayragul Sauytbay calmly described what Chinese officials continue to deny: a vast...
8 World-Expanding Books About Parallel Universes
2016–2018 made a lot of us feel like we were in the wrong timeline, but parallel universe books have been popular for many years. Whether the...
Meet These 6 Anti-Heroines In YA Fiction
Who needs heroes? These past couple of years the rise of antiheroines in YA fiction has become bigger…and better. Sometimes our heroes in YA SFF are...
Words Romance Novels Have Ruined for Me
If you read romance, you know how it goes: words get new sexual meanings, because EUPHEMISMS ARE FUN! And then the word is ruined in your...
Don’t Downgrade From Windows 10 to Windows 8.1
Pieter Beens/Shutterstock Windows 10 can sometimes be a real mess. Between botched updates, treating its users as beta testers, and adding features we never wanted it...
The 18 Best Dog Poems for Every Wag-Worthy Occasion
This past year, I became an aunt to my brother and sister-in-law’s dog, Remi. As the mother to two kitties, I’d always counted myself a cat...
