Changed Note
In Y, Leslie Adrienne Miller is forced to confront the male brain directly. Named after the chromosome to which we owe our entire sex, Y is an attempt to understand the cruelty, the darkness, and the silence of boys and men.
On Diction
…or, Why You Should Care About Every Syllable in Every Sentence You Write with Your Whole Heart
Speak, Resilience
Perhaps it’s the knowledge of what comes afterward that has long stirred my sympathies for Nicholas and Alexandra, the last tsar and tsarina of Russia.
Teen Dreams and Time Travel
You’d have to be a unique species of naïf to think questions like these take Molly Ringwald by surprise. Actually, you’d have to be the stupidest person on earth.
The Search for the Literary Mecca
What bookish type hasn’t had a fleeting fancy of moving to New York? The so-called Book Capital of the World, the city is legendary for its literary history. In today’s New York, scores…
Why Getting Kids to Read is Not Enough
On a slow afternoon with nothing left to read and no new tweets to get us all a twitter, it’s not that far fetched that one might find him or herself experimenting with…
Whatever Happened to Masculinity?
The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hell, similarly, is not tragic, but static. The terror of a book like Scott Wrobel’s Cul de Sac is that nothing outwardly changes.