20th century history | Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Posted on May 5, 2025 in Blog, Writing

PEN World Voices Festival: Writing Humor for Kids, Seriously

A roundup of a fascinating panel for the PEN World Voices Festival on writing humor for kids that can be multilayered and subversive.

Posted on Mar 10, 2025 in Blog, Chile, International, Music

At tax time, reflections on a Chilean duo that also resisted a dictatorship.

Posted on Nov 15, 2024 in Blog, International

A discussion of the fates of democracies that gave way to dictatorships from the mid-1990s to the present. How many of them are democracies again?

Posted on Oct 2, 2024 in Blog, Germany, International

An election in which our very democracy and freedoms are at stake, and what we lose if we lose them to shiny promises and violent solutions.

Posted on Jul 2, 2024 in Blog, International, Portugal

Drawing from a passage in Eyes Open on accepting responsibility for failure, as it relates to the upcoming election.