What Greta Gerwig Got Right: Rethinking Amy March in Light of May Alcott Nieriker
The real-life model for Louisa May Alcott’s Amy March was a pioneering champion of women artists....
A Lady Macbeth for the Instagram Age
Iman Sultan reviews a YA retelling of “Macbeth” in a Catholic prep school....
Translating Transnational Anxiety: Ivana Dobrakovová’s “Bellevue”
Daniel. W Pratt considers adolescence, madness, and the breakdown of language in Ivana Dobrakovová’s “Bellevue,” translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood....
A Gorgeous Nightmare: On Mark Z. Danielewski’s “The Little Blue Kite”
S. Tremaine Nelson reviews a new children’s book from the author of “House of Leaves.”...
Misfit Friendships: A Conversation with Jeff Zentner
A prominent YA author on the importance of friendship and the dangers of toxic masculinity....
WriteGirl Has My Heart: A Conversation with Keren Taylor
Dinah Lenney talks to Keren Taylor, the founder and executive director of WriteGirl....
Unthinking Pleasure: On Casey McQuiston’s “Red, White & Royal Blue”
Harrison Hill on the pleasures of reading Casey McQuiston’s gay YA novel, “Red, White & Royal Blue.”...
Wonder Worlds: Nature Art Books Are Illustrating What We Have to Lose
Sara Scribner explores three lushly illustrated nature books by European authors that describe what nature does when humans aren’t around....
Learning to Breathe: On Gabby Rivera’s “Juliet Takes a Breath”
A queer Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx has a summer fling in Gabby Rivera’s “Juliet Takes a Breath.”...
Reading to a Child
Emily Hodgson Anderson on the promises and perils of reading aloud....
The Trouble with “Adam”
The teen film “Adam” turns complex issues of trans visibility into a vacuous sex farce....
The End of Oz: Reflections on the Centenary of L. Frank Baum’s Death
Scott Bradfield on the pleasures and perils of the “Oz” series....
