Dan Kois

Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate. He’s the author of How to Be a Family and the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward. His novel Vintage Contemporaries will be published in 2023.

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Virginia Republicans Are Testing a Novel Way to Ban Books. It Might Just Work.
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The Great Fictional Deaths Readers Can’t Believe We Left Off Our List
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The 1990s Denzel Mystery That Should’ve Launched a Franchise
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The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time
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How Sesame Street Turned a Real-Life Death Into One of Its Most Important Episodes
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Stephen King, David Simon, and More on the Death Scenes That Haunt Them
Dan Kois
July 20, 2022 5:55 AM
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Doonesbury’s Creator Remembers the Controversial Storyline That Brought AIDS to the Funny Pages
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July 20, 2022 5:54 AM
The Most Devastating Scene in Cartoon Dog History Has a Surprising Lesson
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What the Ending of Thelma & Louise Really Means
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July 20, 2022 5:52 AM
Contagion’s Screenwriter on Why He Needed to Saw Open Gwyneth Paltrow’s Head
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July 20, 2022 5:51 AM
The Story Behind The Wire’s Most Excruciating Death Scene
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July 20, 2022 5:49 AM
Stephen King on Why He Had to Begin It by Killing a 6-Year-Old
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July 20, 2022 5:47 AM
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Richard Powers on The Overstory’s Most Shattering Death Scene
Dan Kois
July 20, 2022 5:46 AM
How the Author of Wolf Hall Made One of History’s Most Famous Deaths Feel New Again
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July 20, 2022 5:45 AM
The Writer of “Brokeback Mountain” on What People Misunderstand About the Ending
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July 20, 2022 5:44 AM
Junot Díaz on Why the Life of Oscar Wao Had to Be So Brief
Dan Kois
July 20, 2022 5:41 AM
Charles Burnett on Killing Off a Bad Guy—Sort of—in To Sleep With Anger
Dan Kois
July 20, 2022 5:40 AM
What Would Donald Trump Have Done if He’d Actually Gotten to the Capitol?
Dan Kois
June 28, 2022 6:30 PM
Ben Affleck’s Soda Dispenser Suggests He and J. Lo Face an Insurmountable Hurdle
Dan Kois
June 22, 2022 5:32 PM
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