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Topic: coming of age

Didi (Focus Features)

Joan Chen on Twin Peaks regrets & Dìdi

Gary M. Kramer
Sujata Day at camp (Photo provided by Sujata Day)

My hot Indian summers at Hindu camp

Sujata Day
Students in the audience listen as Chris Herren speaks. At Wilson High School in West Lawn, PA where former NBA basketball player Chris Herren, who has been in recovery for more than 12 years, spoke to a group of High School students as part of the Caron Treatment Center Peak Performance Leadership Academy Tuesday afternoon April 13, 2021. As a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, seating at the event was limited, and video was recorded of the presentation by Herren, to be shown to other students later. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

How the pandemic warped Gen Z

Eric Schank
Ashleé and Addy (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo provided by Ashleé Clark)

Best of 2021: We were American Girls

Ashleé Clark
Ashleé and Addy (Photo provided by Ashleé Clark)

We were American Girls

Ashleé Clark
Sofia Bryant, Wyatt Oleff, and Sophia Lillis in "I Am Not Okay With This" (Netflix)

Not your average coming-of-rage drama

Ashlie D. Stevens
Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher in "Eighth Grade" (A24)

Should "Eighth Grade" be rated R?

Alexandra Clinton
(Getty/Rick Wilking)

Trump and hyper-masculinity

Don Hazen, Kali Holloway - Alternet
("Freaks and Geeks")

Prachi Gupta
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