I bring you here ten of my favorite quotes and anecdotes from this remarkably funny and moving story of Dolly’s life, as she chose to tell it. She is magnanimous and generous, and she gives away exact...

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In her fourth novel, Khadivi asks, what does one do with these questions we can no longer ask, hidden stories that can never be unraveled, which the dead have taken with them to their graves?

​Under a sky that has forgotten how to be gentle, a tattered canvas tent clings to the earth. Within its fragile walls lives Umm Omar, a 38-year-old mother of six, alongside her husband. Stripped of…

In her fourth novel, Khadivi asks, what does one do with these questions we can no longer ask, hidden stories that can never be unraveled, which the dead have taken with them to their graves?

In her fourth novel, Khadivi asks, what does one do with these questions we can no longer ask, hidden stories that can never be unraveled, which the dead have taken with them to their graves?

It's September and book award season rolls on. We recommend seven new books coming out this month, plus one celebrity memoir from 1994.

Can you really combine two finished, flour-based products using only heat? If Jo in Nunez's "Mother-Daughter Story" is skeptical of the concept of the crookie to begin with, we were skeptical of the f...

The plague really fucked my shit up.

Scholar Deva Woodly says progressive politicians shouldn’t distance themselves from the movements of the early 2020s.

With The Book of Chuck, Watkins cements her place as an essential storyteller of Black life in America and one of Toni Morrison’s heir apparents.

My name is Sian and I am crowdfunding for gender confirming surg… Sian Penny needs your support for I'm not going back: Help Sian access gender-affirming care