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Chagas disease is transmitted primarily through an insect called the 'kissing bug' which bites people around the mouth and then can pass along a parasite through people's mouth, nose or breaks in the skin

As a daughter of immigrants, imagining myself in a queer life was almost impossible.

Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl and budding writer in her novel Roses in the Mouth of a Lion.

Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease, which won the 2022 PEN /Jean Stein Book Award and was selected as an inaugural title for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. She is also the author of the award-winning memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Daisy is an Associate Professor in the English Department...

“It touches me when people ask me to read a book because it’s special to them,” says the fiction writer, whose new book is the story collection “The Faraway World.” “It’s like being granted permission to peek inside their soul.”

Essay bots may be the next industry to be automated away, thanks to AI program ChatGPT.  Artificial intelligence can be used to perform a variety of human-like tasks, including turning information from the internet into detailed written responses, such as essays. AI program ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI last November and already one of the most...

This weeks books: “That Which Cannot Be Undone: An Ohio Horror Anthology” and “Murder of a Mail-Order Bride.”

Moving to Ohio, a professor and author unexpectedly finds the familiar: big extended families with ties to the land, to neighbors, to home.

Fiction by Lauren Groff and Kristen Arnett, erotica by Samuel R. Delany and nonfiction by Daisy Hernández are among this years Lambda nominees.

Fiction by Lauren Groff and Kristen Arnett, erotica by Samuel R