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If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

Sanibel on Social Class, Undine Spragg, Becky Sharp, and Who Society Punishes in Art and Life

By Sanibel | April 15, 2025

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On the Corrosive Privilege of the Most Mocked Man in the World

By Rebecca Solnit | May 31, 2024

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Efrén Ordóñez Garza on Writing as Practice, Lifestyle, and Identity

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza | July 24, 2023

Garrett Neiman on Uprooting the Old Boy’s Club in Order to Transform America

Garrett Neiman on Uprooting the Old Boy’s Club in Order to Transform America

Keen On">In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 26, 2023

Board Game Geek Helped Make Board Games More Inclusive"> How <em

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Aaron Trammell on Being a BIPOC Gamer, the Exclusionary Old Guard of Nerd Culture, Privilege, and More

By Aaron Trammell | April 20, 2023

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

Rachel Jamison Webster on Oral Traditions, Racial Ancestries, and Confronting Shame

By Rachel Jamison Webster | March 21, 2023

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By Steven Wright | October 12, 2021

"Tall." Claudia Rankine on Privilege, Seen and Unseen

By Claudia Rankine | September 8, 2020

Michael Eric Dyson on Faith, Blackness, and Jay Z's Appreciation for Language

Michael Eric Dyson on Faith, Blackness, and Jay Z's Appreciation for Language

But That's Another Story">In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | December 2, 2019

Cyrus Grace Dunham on Why We Need to Explode the Gender Binary

Cyrus Grace Dunham on Why We Need to Explode the Gender Binary

A Year Without a Name">Sarah Neilson in Conversation with the Author of A Year Without a Name

By Sarah Neilson | October 17, 2019

Tash Aw: Living and Writing as a Divided Southeast-Asian

Tash Aw: Living and Writing as a Divided Southeast-Asian

On Privilege, Unfairness, and Wanting More From Life

By Tash Aw | September 10, 2019

Being an Art Monster"> The Late-Capitalist Privileges of<br

The Late-Capitalist Privileges of<br

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Sarah Elaine Smith on Working a Tech Job While Trying to Make Art

By Sarah Elaine Smith | July 31, 2019

On a Radical Model of Education: The Free School

On a Radical Model of Education: The Free School

Nora Samaran Reveals the Politics of Nurturance

By Nora Samaran | July 16, 2019

An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

An App to Remind You You're Going to Die? On Death Positivity

How Death-Positive Activism Has—and Hasn't—Changed in 40 Years

By Ara A. Francis | April 24, 2019

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love

By Kristen Martin | February 11, 2019

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