Media Debate

Dear Edward Snowden

Sep 12, 2016

Open Letter by J.p. Lawrence

I don’t know if I would have done what you did under the same circumstances.

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Dear Gretchen Carlson, Formerly of Fox News

Sep 05, 2016

Open Letter by Martha Nichols

When I read liberal commenters damning you with faint praise, I see ugly attitudes about women exposed.

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How I Became a First-Person Journalist

Mar 21, 2016

TW Column by Martha Nichols

In literary circles, nonfiction writing is often called everything but journalism.

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Sex and the Young Reader

Oct 26, 2015

Theme Essay by Karen J. Ohlson

Should parents ever censor what their kids read?

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A Golden Age for Young Adult Books

Sep 21, 2015

Theme Essay by Stephen Roxburgh

It’s no surprise to me that YA readers still prefer print.

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The YA Conspiracy—and How I Grew Up

Sep 14, 2015

TW Column by David Biddle

It bothered the hell out of me that people were standing in line waiting for midnight sales of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

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The Case of the Disappearing Editor

Jun 15, 2015

TW Column by Martha Nichols

In the battle over submission fees, what troubles me most is the idea that writers do everything and editors do nothing.

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Rewiring Our Interior Lives

Apr 06, 2015

Book Excerpt by Douglas Coupland

The Internet has burrowed inside my head and laid eggs, and it feels like they’re all hatching.

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Environmental Amnesia

Mar 30, 2015

TW Theme Essay by Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

Wildness doesn’t just exist in facing off a lion with a burning branch.

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You Can’t Make Me Clean

Mar 30, 2015

TW Column by Emily Toth

I don’t believe in an afterlife. I’m not worried I’ll come back as a tampon.

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