Sentimental Education

Old role models, new perspective

What happens when the literary heroes of your childhood don't appear as admirable as they once did?

By Lucy Tang | Dec 1 07:02 pm ET

Internet slang leaves writers lost in communication

While we in the States bemoan the intrusion of Internet shorthand (“LOL,” “WTF,” “FML”) into the vernacular, the Japanese language, in some ways, faces extinction.

By Lucy Tang | Nov 10 07:15 pm ET

Searching for and finding oneself in a good book

A friend gave me this tidbit of advice: “This isn’t you. This isn’t sparkly.” After I came to terms with the fact that the adjectives used to characterize me—“playful” and “sparkly”—are also seen on advertisements for My Little Pony, I had to face the daunting process of first figuring out who I was and then putting that knowledge to paper.

By Lucy Tang | Sep 29 10:24 pm ET

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