A time capsule of queer Los Angeles, how paying attention matters, read “A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability,” black queer writers winning Pulitzer Prizes and more.

Books to break your reading slumps, queer adult comics creators living under FOSTA/SESTA, new Simone de Beauvoir, Meryl Streep’s bookshelves and more.

Art supply care packages, what even is “normal,” just get weird and more.

Pandemic reading, writers speaking for themselves rather than for their communities, new books on mental health and more.

New original fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, approaching queer community from a place of love, on being publicly shamed, linguistic gatekeeping and more.

Is literary fiction a scam? How do you read the unread books you already own? Are you reading enough books in translation? Wanna read about baby penguins? Click through.

“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became a lifestyle brand and, one assumes, a personality, and more.

Halloween reading, all the new (and forthcoming!) Carmen Maria Machado, women reclaiming anger and more.

Silently reading en masse, language and citizenship, writers remembering Toni Morrison and more.