The 2018 We’re the People Summer Reading List: Filled With Great Books for Everyone
The 2018 We're the People Summer Reading List, with books by and about indigenous people and people of color for all ages and a wide variety of genres.
The 2018 We're the People Summer Reading List, with books by and about indigenous people and people of color for all ages and a wide variety of genres.
Living in another country and feeling increasingly disconnected to the one I left.
A closing panel of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival addresses the question: could (or has) an authoritarian regime come to power in the United States?
A PEN World Voices panel on writing and democracy that highlighted the myth of meritocracy and the self-made man, and need for more inclusive media and stories.
I first met Anne Nesbet at the AWP conference in Washington, D.C. last February, when she was on a middle grade panel at Politics & Prose, a famous independent bookstore…
Thoughts on demonstrations that recently brought down the government in Slovakia and parallels to the student-led rally in Washington, D.C. for gun control.
A review of Away, a new travel store in Lower Manhattan that also serves as a community space.
A discussion of sexual harassment in children's publishing and, for inspiration, a roundup of two recent movies featuring women who fight back.
Some thoughts on The New York Times Travel Expo and my meetings with travel agents and specialists on travelers with disabilities.
A roundup of my teaching, translation, and writing in 2017 and my plans for a YA historical fiction series, now in progress.