The Restaurant on the Corner: A Gentrification Tale
The story of a favorite old restaurant captures the larger process of gentrification in Lisbon.
Lisbon’s African Roots Tour
A tour of Lisbon with a focus on the history of African peoples who were brought to the city as part of the slave trade and who moved there in the 20th century.
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 panelists, from left, Masha Gessen, Max Book, Ian Buruma, and moderator Chip Rawley.
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “It Can’t Happen Here”
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?
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like”
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.
Buildings in the former East Berlin at night.
Writing Historical Fiction With International Settings: An Interview with Anne Nesbet
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…
A Government Falls
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.
Away: A Traveler’s Oasis in Lower Manhattan
A review of Away, a new travel store in Lower Manhattan that also serves as a community space.
Women as Avenging Angels
A discussion of sexual harassment in children's publishing and, for inspiration, a roundup of two recent movies featuring women who fight back.
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