For many students and young adults, hearing about the Rice Purity Test can be a bit confusing. You might have seen friends ...

Now that the release of the much anticipated follow-up to Freedom is just around the corner, only one question remains: What is Jonathan Franzen's Purity about? Well, it's not the simplest of answers.

Jonathan Franzen (“The Corrections”) is often regarded less as writer than as cultural signifier, emblem of white male hegemony. That this has little if anything to do with the substance of his novels ...

Jonathan Franzen’s career offers a cautionary narrative — for us as much as him. As far back as 1996, with “Perchance to Dream,” his long essay published in Harper’s on the state of contemporary ...

Put a finger down if you’ve come across a ‘Rice Purity Test’ video on TikTok. Purity tests first gained popularity in the 1980s as a way to test the taker’s innocence, and the Rice purity test is one ...

The phrase "purity culture" usually conjures sexual mores and the political right. After all, it's conservatives who care about purity and sanctity. It's primarily evangelicals who participate in the ...

(RNS) — In ‘Recovering from Purity Culture,’ Camden Morgante confronts the damage of shame-based sexuality and charts a path forward. (RNS) — Whether it was wearing a “True Love Waits” ring, reading ...

"In the evangelical community, an 'impure' girl or woman isn’t just seen as damaged; she’s considered dangerous," Linda Kay Klein writes in her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that ...