This year, my plan is to document my reading here on this blog. In an attempt to make it unnecessarily weird and competitive, I decided...

Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...

In honor of Meg Medina spotlighting the book during the ceremony for her new role of National Ambassador of Young People's Literature, I...

Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...

This year, my plan is to document my reading here on this blog. In an attempt to make it unnecessarily weird and competitive, I decided...

Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...

Grammar is a class thing. And it is still going strong. People make all kinds of claims about the internet changing grammar standards or...

The name is taken from a moment several years ago. I was in the Netherlands with two friends from graduate school. After dinner, I agreed...

One of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams, wrote in an essay collection in which he asserts that teachers are, by definition, Liars to...

Dear Trope Fairy, Years ago, my siblings and I discovered a wardrobe that led to a magical world. We crossed through it together, and we...