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Author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Alison Bechdel faces her sellout fears

Andi Zeisler
Fire Island (Jeong Park/Searchlight)

"Fire Island" creates a new Bechdel test

Alison Stine
Jackie Tohn and Betty Gilpin in "Glow" (Netflix/Erica Parise)

TV passes the bechdel test

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2047223p1.html'>Kelly vanDellen</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Higher ed's real censors

Corey Robin
(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

Students protest Bechdel book

Paula Young Lee

What to look for in 2015

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Details from Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir" and Alison Bechdel's "Are You My Mother?" (Bloomsbury USA/Mariner Books)

"This isn't literary"

Alexander Chee

The long shadow of "Ulysses"

Robert D. Newman