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Flour Baby

Fiction by Megan Cummins
Ms. Bird stood in front of the class, holding a bag of flour. “You’ll dress up your flour babies, you’ll name your flour babies, and your flour babies will go everywhere with you for two weeks.”
Fiction Conflict
Interview

Darin Strauss: Beyond Biography

By Michele Filgate
The writer on blending fiction and memoir, and exploring the nature of celebrity.
Lit World
Interview

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Everything that Made Us Still Belongs to Us

By Lisa Factora-Borchers
The writer of a poetic trilogy on listening to ancestral voices, Black feminism, and seeing salvation in marine mammals.
Lit World
Interview

Chana Joffe-Walt: Nice White Parents

By DJ Cashmere
The producer of the hit podcast talks about how race and power shape public education, and what it will take to create a more equitable system.
EducationRace
Fiction

The Mighty Oak

An excerpt of the novel by Jeff W. Bens
He kept meaning to get back to Boston. From Texas. From Florida where he was before Texas. He hasn't seen his daughter. He's ashamed that it will take his own mother's funeral for him to see her, to see Kate for the first time in four years.
ConflictFamily & Relationships
Essay

Certification of Righteousness

By Caitlin Myer
Taking her cue from biblical assassins, a young Mormon woman struggles to break free.
Family & RelationshipsReligion
Interview

Back Draft: Emma McMillan

By Kat Herriman and Emma McMillan
The painter on frottage, a decorative rebellion, and the destruction of the traditional family unit.
Back Draft Arts & Culture
Essay

Elsie Conick: A Biography in Fragments

By A-J Aronstein
In 1918, she became the first Black woman tennis player to appear on the cover of an American magazine.
HistoryRaceSports
Interview

Shruti Swamy: The Intensity of Language

By Alexandra Chang
The writer on confronting fear on the page, motherhood, and how stories help us make meaning.
Lit World
Review

On One’s Land

By Sarah Ruth Bates
Kendra Atleework's memoir Miracle Country embraces a dangerous, and endangered, land.
Lit World
Review

Objects of Curiosity

By Adam Dalva
Elena Ferrante's latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, is a marvelous blur.
Lit World
Profile

How To Corrupt the Youth

By Regan Penaluna
For Briana Toole, philosophy is the key to helping young people understand the world around them—and stand up for themselves.
EducationJustice
Fiction

Lemonade

Eshkol Nevo, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
He couldn't decide whether to add a picture of a camera or one of himself, and in the end (I knew it), he posted a one of himself. Taken ten years ago.
Family & Relationships
Poetry

9 dreams

By Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated from the Spanish by Katie Marya
I feel as though I’ve dreamed / something terrible, but I don’t remember / what.
Arts & CultureBodies & Nature
Essay

Fever in the Woods

By Hillery Stone
Tucked far away with my children, this is where I feel safest and most afraid.
Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Interview

Angie Thomas: We Have to Get Uncomfortable

By Freddie Coffey
The bestselling YA author discusses how young people can make change, how grief shapes activism, and what it would mean to defund the police.
Lit WorldRace
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