This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. To please his mother, a writer attempts a children’s ...

Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as ...

The power of children’s stories resides largely in its audience: in how open young people are to new ideas. Their drive to experiment is familiar to any parent: Children invent new words, do things ...