Kali Fajardo-Anstine talks about her new short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” her obsession with dualities, and Chicano and Indigenous history in Denver.
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‘Victims Become This Object of Fascination… This Silent Symbol.’
Rachel Monroe talks about the pitfalls of the true crime genre. “I had this feeling like I can see the whole thing and nobody else understands… That’s a real trap that we as reporters can fall in.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862
Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
‘My Teachers Said We Weren’t Allowed To Use Them.’
How Cecelia Watson learned to stop worrying and love the semicolon.
‘I Don’t Think Those Feelings of Self-Doubt Ever Go Away.’
Susan Choi talks about feeling unsure of oneself, as a writer, as a performer — or as a victim — and about how her latest novel evolved in uncanny tandem with the real world.
This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
We All Work for Facebook
Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
Stalin’s Scheherazade
An opportunistic literary caper became a lifelong con — with no possibility of escape.
We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Very Beginning
Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles, but didn’t give riders the same illusion of freedom and masculine derring-do.
Helen Oyeyemi on ‘Gingerbread,’ Fairy Tales, and What Self-Branding Is Doing to Childhood
“I was thinking a lot about childhood as this special status, an almost endangered status … that is eroded the more that we start thinking of ourselves as these units of value and worrying about what we’re worth.”
