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A few years ago, author and Rutgers-Camden professor Tom McAllister was stuck in a writing rut. In an attempt to extract himself from said rut, […]
Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Thursday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]
South Philadelphia author Liz Moore published her novel Long Bright River in January 2020. Barack Obama loved it so much that he put it on […]
To be queer today is to live at the center of a contradiction: perhaps at no point in history have LGBTQIA+ people experienced such widespread […]
Like any big city, Philadelphia has been shaped by many factors through the years. Among the most significant? The impact of sophisticated, well-educated “young urban […]
With half already on the shelves and the rest on their way, these 10 new novels by local authors give you plenty of pages to […]
In 2012, Germantown native Ayana Mathis suddenly found herself thrust into the spotlight when Oprah Winfrey singled out her debut novel for the famous book […]
Jenny Laden had a premonition of her funeral, and drag queens were there. This was about 10 years ago, just after the Philadelphia native returned […]
Picture this: You’re at the Shore, toes in the sand, sun on your skin. The sounds of crashing waves and cawing gulls float on the […]
For the past three years, the word “resilience” has cropped up countless times in conversations, books, TV ads and on social media. It’s been used […]
In one of her lesser-known (but totally underrated) songs, “Dark Side,” Kelly Clarkson sings about a “place that I know / It’s not pretty there […]
There are few men we could interview in this space who could talk about their Gucci leather addiction, winning a Pulitzer at the Inquirer, their […]
Self-described children of a “low-fi household,” the Darlingtons have specialized more in nostalgia than prognostication. The local brother-and-sister authors Andre and Tenaya had already collaborated […]
If our cover story on Ben Franklin whetted your historical appetite — and you enjoyed Ken Burns’s PBS documentary on the city’s fave founding father […]
The Center City District’s glossy February report on “Residential Resiliency” arrived with a loud cheer for what it calls “Greater Center City,” defined as stretching […]