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Photo Essay: Speaking Out Brings Queer Youth Experience Into Focus

Queer youth, ages 14 to 24, shed light on their lives in a just-released photographic collection. We share eight of the snapshots here.

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Happy Birthday, E.E. Cummings!

Get savvy on the acclaimed writer and poet—it won't take long, his poems are short.

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Gone Girl's Rape Problem

Although penned by a woman, the blockbuster book and film includes—and perpetuates—disturbing claims of fake rape.

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Lana Del Rey's Lolita Obsession: Another Reason to Love her Music

Lana Del Rey's brand of feminism is steeped in the themes of a scandalous literary classic.

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Watch: Epic Rap Battle Between Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King

Bookworms will love this YouTube rap throwdown between a pair of literary masters.

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Of Bombshells and Bullshit: Did Bobby Kennedy Really Have Marilyn Monroe Murdered?

More than 50 years later, the public is still salivating over salacious theories about Marilyn Monroe's death. Is it finally time to let it go?

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Bombshell Book Claims Author is Son of Infamous Zodiac Killer

The previous secrecy of the book, it’s searing allegations and the unclear police response makes the whole story ever-so-juicy.

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Lena Dunham’s Book Cover: Rockin' Seventies Font Worthy of Didion and Other Literary Greats

This October, Girls wunderkind Lena Dunham will extend her super influential reach with an essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl. We wer

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