Ilana Masad

Family influencers make the lifestyle look good. But kids pay the price, new book says

Ilana Masad

What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers.

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'People Collide' is a 'Freaky Friday'-type exploration of the self and persona

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Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees us.

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'When Crack Was King' follows four people who lived through the drug epidemic

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An excellent work of people-first journalism, Donovan X. Ramsey's book offers a vivid and frank history and highlights how communities tend to save themselves even as they're being targeted.

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Relationships are the true heart of 1940s dystopian novel 'Kallocain'

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Karin Boye's novel is an outlier in that it was authored by a woman and, though narrated by a man, still expresses interest in women's inner life and acknowledges the subtleties of sexism.

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Stories in 'Sidle Creek' offer an insider look at Appalachia

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The 22 stories in Sidle Creek charm, surprise, and convey a deep love of the people and place — the Appalachian plateau of western Pennsylvania — that author Jolene McIlwain has long called home.

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'Gone to the Wolves' masterfully portrays the heavy metal scene of the '80s and '90s

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John Wray's latest novel is a powerful and juicy story about a particular time, subculture, and the ways people can find themselves in — or can deliberately disappear into — fandom.

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'The Skin and Its Girl' ponders truths, half-truths, and lies passed down in families

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Sarah Cypher's debut novel ponders how stories can unite or divide as narrator Betty considers a big decision with her great-aunt Nuha's own mysterious life — and the tales she told — in mind.