Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark, explores what happens when a virus is unleashed on the planet—and manages to inject moments of humor amid the darkness.
Is it possible to have universal standards separate from the influence of race, class, and culture? Can the teaching of parenting ever be truly objective?
The ways we write about trauma have evolved. "In a world infatuated with victimhood," Parul Sehgal writes for The New Yorker, "has trauma emerged as a passport to status—our red badge of courage?"