Finding queer desire in literature, why it can feel uncomfortable to read queer romance, two lesbian poets writing under the same pseudonym and more.

The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.

Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.

Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.

“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.

Queer pleasure as a form of resistance, finding your purpose, the best of the best of lists and more.

Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.

YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.

Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.

Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.

What a beach read is anyway, a new book about Los Angeles BDSM, the most cursed days for writers and more.

Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.

“You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Plus poems about soft bodies on a planet in peril, an argument for binge reading and more.