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Let’s talk about sex, baby.

We can respect for parents who think some explicit material goes too far, while protecting a robust discussion of sexuality and gender.

The pandemic reinvigorated car travel and, with it, the market for snacks and Americana. Will it last?

Evan Dara activates the contemporary reader’s apocalyptic and bloodthirsty cultural sensibility but also turns it against itself.

Author Mark Leyner contemplates fathers, daughters and time By Andrew Dansby, Staff writer © Little Brown & Co. Mark Leynder collage Twenty-five years ago when I arrived in New York, a friend born and raised there passed along a novel and two story collections written by Mark Leyner. He suggested the books were required reading for anyone new to the city, and they did in fact reflect its rush of stimuli on a newcomer. Leyner’s language was dense, his imagery visceral and his...

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...

Charles Yu, Author of “Interior Chinatown,” Featured in Conversation at Chatham Square Library A free conversation and book talk with rising star and recent National Book Award winner, Charles Yu, will be online at Chatham Square Library this Wednesday, Dec. 16th at 6pm. Yu will be discussing the award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown. The novel is on many Best-of 2020 lists.    The story explores Asian-American stereotypes with both humor and poignancy. It reads like an historical lo...