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Joan Didion, who passed on December 23, 2021, is perhaps best known for the opening sentence to her book of non-fiction essays, The White Album: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Over a life of reading and self-storytelling, there are few specific instances that I can point to and claim as my own

A downgrade from 2005?

An aromantic look at romance everywhere

Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with you

What does Black Twitter have to say about K-pop Afrobeats?

When Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone founded Twitter back in 2006, I’m 60 percent sure that they didn’t know how much the app was going to blow up, and I’m 99 percent sure that they had no idea it would lead to a verified cultural phenomenon—Black Twitter. Twitter’s Black users, affectionately and simply

From a Get Out-esque social horror to a cutesy YA contemporary novel and everything in-between

Sorting through what we should take and leave behind in the New Year

Why young adult fiction belongs in the university classroom, and all other spaces where literature is discussed