They’re Here, They’re Genderqueer, Get Used to Gender Neutral Pronouns
Ongoing study and debate about gender neutral pronouns.
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Marvel Universe and Our Cultural Values
A postmodern view of the Marvel comics and cinematic franchise,
In Flight with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The little known aviation career of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince.
Fanf–kingtastic and Edumacational: The Case of English Infixation
From shiznit to wel-diddly-elcome, the evolution of infixation in English language.
Gruppe 47: The Group That Made Günter Grass
How did Günter Grass go from child soldier to literary titan? Part of the answer lies in the history of literary group Gruppe 47.
Claudia Rankine Nominated for Poetry and Criticism Awards by National Book Critics Circle
Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, was the first book to be nominated by the National Book Critics Circle for both poetry and criticism.
Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015
A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.
All the Young Dudes: Generic Gender Terms Among Young Women
The linguistics behind gender neutral terms among young women.
A Brief History of Young Adult Fiction
Before there such a thing as "YA," librarians struggled not just to define a genre, but to figure out how to get books in the hands of young readers.
More on Internet Neologisms: Rage Quitting is a Thing
More on internet neologisms: pairing together a (negative) mood word with a verb to produce a semi-productive compound.