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Disabled Characters Are Not Novel

5 Crip Lit books to add to your ‘to-read’ list

The Future is Brief

An essay in fragments on novellas, social media, and the impending robot apocalypse

Decolonize Your Bookshelf

Spend Thanksgiving with 3 reads by Indigenous authors.

To Buy Or Not To Buy: On Book Consumption

There's nothing like coming home with a new book. But where it comes from, and how it gets there, makes a big difference.

For Better Or Worse: The New York Times Book Review Turns 125

Love it or loathe it, the New York Times Book Review recently celebrated 125 years. Where has this behemoth taken the literary world, and where can it go next?

5 Literary Podcasts That Will Have You On the Floor Laughing

Bad book reviews, literary cocktails, and more.

Tales from the Exercise Bed

How a disability bed baptized my imagination and made me into a storyteller.

Decolonizing Our Bookshelves

How to read fewer white guys, and have fun doing it.

Shelving the Stereotypes

Flaxman's 6th annual Bibliodérive seeks to challenge expectations in the library

An Interview With Author Sophie Lucido Johnson

A former F Newsmagazine editor graduated from SAIC and landed a book deal.

The Unread Shelf: Trilling On Forster, Take Two

The Unread Shelf reviews books we've got on our shelves and have finally gotten around to reading. Justin Rosier examines the second edition of Lionel Trilling's seminal "E.M. Forster".

The Outlanders of ‘Vote Trump’

A new slew of books on the white working class in America shed light on the backdrop of a Trump presidency.

Good Read: ‘I’m Fine But You Appear to Be Sinking’

Leyna Krow's debut collection is the latest from Featherproof Books.

Book Review: ‘Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking’

Anne Elizabeth Moore's graphic exploration of the fast fashion industry is a vital read.

Alice Dreger’s ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger’ and the Scholar/Activist Divide

Despite censorship, Alice Dreger shines a light on scientific research's ethical blind spot.