X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/magazine/letter-x.html X is the Best Letter in the Alphabet It’s now used to indicate sex and gender beyond the binary. But X has always been powerful. Credit...Illustration by Hayley Wall June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET As a bookish child, I loved most of all an anthology of stories that sat high on my parents’ white bookshelves. At night, my siblings and I would gather on my littlest sister’s bed while one of my parents read to us. Once I learned to read, I took to raising myself up on my tiptoes to borrow that book and carrying it to the nubbly lime green couch in the playroom.