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(AP/Richard Drew)

NYT demotes editor over tweets

Shira Tarlo
Roxane Gay (PBS)

"Breaking Big" corrects self-made myths

Melanie McFarland

The 10 best books of summer

Rachel Leah
Milo Yiannopoulos (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Taylor Link
Roxane Gay (Jay Grabiec)

gay: no milo for me

Taylor Link
Mike Colter in "Luke Cage" (Netflix)

"A bulletproof black man"

Willie Burnley Jr.
Zendaya (AP/Chris Pizzello)

A difficult person

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer, Anne Hathaway, Taylor Swift (AP/Reuters/Arthur Mola/Jordan Strauss/Mario Anzuoni/Greg Allen)

The new cool girl trap

Arielle Bernstein

Joss Whedon leaves Twitter

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Marcelo Krasilcic/Salon)

Stephin Merritt, "mean" critic

Laura Miller
Roxane Gay (Jay Grabiec)

Roxane Gay on Cosby, "Girls"

Sara Scribner
Celeste Ng (center), surrounded by (clockwise, from top left): Lan Samantha Chang, Nina McConigley, Hanya Yanagihara, Ru Freeman (Penguin/Kevin Day/W.W. Norton/Miranda Meyer/ninamcconigley.com/mit.edu/Graywolf Press/Brenda Carpenter)

#weneedasianamericanwriters

Celeste Ng
Leslie Jamison (AP/Richard Drew)

Fear: The enemy of empathy

Michele Filgate
(Hollaback/Rob Bliss)

Race, catcalling & #notallmen

Emily Gould
(Reuters/Zoran Milich/Carlo Allegri/Salon)

Bad feminism: Cultural crisis

Andi Zeisler
An image of Michael Brown is seen on a tie worn by his father, at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, August 25, 2014. (Reuters/Adrees Latif)

Times' weak "no angel" defense

Katie McDonough
Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison (Jay Grabiec/AP/Richard Drew)

Jamison & Gay: Salon Q&A

Michele Filgate
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