The plot, as you may remember, is set in motion by an epidemic.

There’s a certain sound that certain millennials make whenever you mention Animorphs in front of them—a sharp inhalation, a soft “Oh!” No other series from that era elicits such a reaction.

Frankie Thomas demystifies poetic meter.

Here’s the mystery of “Annie on My Mind”: I’ve never met a straight person who’s read it.

Giddy excess, the sentences spilling over like triple-scoop ice cream cones, is the essence of the aesthetic that earned Block her rapturous cult following.

Frankie Thomas on the lesser-known L’Engle.

There were hundreds of books in the series, all of which took place in a heterosexual hellscape of babies and boyfriends as far as the eye could see.

There’s a certain sound that certain millennials make whenever you mention Animorphs in front of them—a sharp inhalation, a soft “Oh!” No other series from that era elicits such a reaction.

We’re away until January 2, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday!“Are we all Joyceans here, then?” the young professor asked, poking his head into the classroom doorway. We looked back at him uncertai…

Close reading is queer culture, always has been, so perhaps we would have gotten good at it regardless of Rowling. Still, I like to think that our fate was sealed in the summer of 2003.

  “Are we all Joyceans here, then?” the young professor asked, poking his head into the classroom doorway. We looked back at him uncertainly. Yes, we were all here for the Ulysses seminar that met at six thirty P.M. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. B…

  Reading Go Ask Alice—the so-called real diary, first published in 1971, of an anonymous girl who took drugs and died—is an experience so widely shared that there’s little point personalizing it. Everyone who encounters Go Ask Alice goes thro…

  At the tail end of the Clinton administration, my school library had a miniature gay section hidden in a corner. It took up half a shelf and consisted of maybe four books—half a dozen, tops. As far as I know, no one else was aware of this; I n…

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where I am currently enrolled, doesn’t require you to do much of anything. Time is largely unstructured here; as long as your writing gets done, you barely have to get out of bed for two years. When I first realized this, …