Jenny G. Zhang

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Jenny G. Zhang

This book strips away the orange peel to ask what fruit means (washingtonpost.com) This book strips away the orange peel to ask what fruit means By Jenny G. Zhang 2025051012000000 Among the many hallmarks of the slice of literature known as diaspora writing, perhaps none is more frequently revisited than the significance of fruit to a child of immigrants.

2 months ago | slate.com | Jenny G. Zhang

The one news story that the entire world cannot stop talking about just keeps going. That’s right, I’m referring to the “historic” all-female Blue Origin space flight, which took a crew of six women—including three very famous ladies—to suborbital space and back in less than 11 minutes on Monday.

2 months ago | slate.com | Jenny G. Zhang

Television This post contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of The White Lotus. In the week leading up to Sunday night’s season finale of The White Lotus, theories abounded about who would wind up the dead bodies floating in the water that had been so tantalizingly teased in the first episode. Would it be the Ratliffs, the privileged family whose fortunes had unexpectedly changed without most of their knowledge?

2 months ago | slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris |Jenny G. Zhang

Skip to the content An Authentic Academic Feel Dear Prudence Each week in Dear Prudence Uncensored, Prudie discusses a tricky letter with a fellow Slate colleague. This week, they dig into “Face the Truth.” Dear Prudence, I’m in my mid-30s and I have a good friend in her early 20s that I’ll call “Mia.” Mia is an incredibly smart, sweet, wonderful person.

Mar 30, 2025 | slate.com | Jenny G. Zhang

Skip to the content Forget That the Real World is Still Happening Books Make no mistake: When the Going Was Good, legendary Vanity Faireditor Graydon Carter’s memoir about “the last golden age of magazines,” is an elegy. The newly released book, co-authored with James Fox, may have the pluckiness of a rags-to-riches—OK, fine, Ontario-to-Manhattan—fairy tale. It may be part résumé, part time capsule, part gossip trove, part Rolodex.