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Slate Magazine - Highbrow, The - Jul 29, 2008
Kay Ryan, who has just been named America's new poet laureate, is a miniaturist. She favors compression the way Walt Whitman favored expansion. Like oysters, she has said, her poems take shape around "an aggravation." …
Slate Magazine - Jul 8, 2008
One hundred years ago, L.M. Montgomery did for women's imaginative lives what Susan B. Anthony did for women's political lives by publishing Anne of Green Gables, the story of an outspoken red-haired orphan growing up …
Slate Magazine - Highbrow, The - May 5, 2008
Call me insensitive, but I didn't think that the supposedly "racy" photo of 'tween star Miley Cyrus holding a bedsheet around her bare torso was as outré as all the fuss made it out to be. Sure, Cyrus' hair is tousled …
Slate Magazine - Highbrow, The - Dec 11, 2007
Back in June, this viewer laughed until she cried at Judd Apatow's goofy comedy Knocked Up, but she also left the theater feeling … disconcerted. An informal poll of female friends revealed the same: They went, they …
Slate Magazine - Nov 19, 2007
A few weeks ago, I began to blog about gender issues over at Slate's "XX Factor" just as I was finishing Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. There is nothing like scanning the news …
Slate Magazine - Nov 8, 2007
Junot Díaz's fiction is propelled by its attention to the energetic hybridity of American life. His debut, Drown, a collection of stories, dealt with questions of identity and belonging in the lives of his narrators …
Slate Magazine - Sep 20, 2007
It is hard now to recover what was so arresting about A Wrinkle in Time the first time I read it, at age 8 or 9. I remember that it was somehow difficult and that it seemed simultaneously very strange and very …
Slate Magazine - Highbrow, The - Sep 4, 2007
Sept. 5, 2007, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, the novel by Jack Kerouac that gave voice to his generation's postwar experiences. With its energetic portrayal of the thrills and confusions …
Slate Magazine - Aug 21, 2007
Prisons have always been surprisingly fruitful places for the production of poetry. But the detention center at Guantánamo Bay would have seemed an exception, since its purpose was the isolation and sequestration of …
Slate Magazine - Highbrow, The - Aug 20, 2007
Prisons have always been surprisingly fruitful places for the production of poetry. But the detention center at Guantanamo Bay would have seemed an exception, since its purpose was the isolation and sequestration of …