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The Fourth Wing Defense: Why Books That Change Lives Deserve More Than One Label

Fourth Wing gets called "smut" the way no male-authored fantasy ever does — but the double standard says more about literary culture than it does about the book. Here is the case for taking it seriously.

Caped and Complicated: What Superheroes Are Actually Teaching Our Children

From Spider-Man to Black Panther, superheroes dominate the stories children grow up with. What values are those stories actually passing on — and are we giving the genre enough credit for the work it is doing?