Wrapping Up 2025’s Resolutions
Checking out last year's New Year's resolutions and unusual success in achieving them.
Outside the U.S. and Alarmed? How You Can Help
If you're a reader of this blog outside the U.S., a list of ways you can support people fighting for democracy in the U.S.
The “Translating the Future” Conference: Activist Translation
Thoughts on the different ways that translators can be activists, from a panel in the just-concluded "Translating the Future" conference.
Films for the Resistance: The Other Side of Everything
Review of the Serbian documentary The Other Side of Everything, about the movement to end the genocidal Milosević regime.
Creativity as Resistance: An Artist’s Story
Thoughts on the role of creative artists in societies facing deep injustice and repression, inspired by an exhibit I saw in Lisbon in spring 2018.
We’re the People Summer Reading 2015
Our 2015 summer reading list features books written and/or illustrated by people of color, with all age groups and genres represented.
The #WeNeedDiverseBooks Panel at BookCon
A report on the #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel and the multicultural small press panel at the 2014 BookCon in New York City.
Why Save the Fulbright Program?
How I benefited from being part of the Fulbright program in Portugal and why the program deserves continued funding with no strings attached.
Some colophons from small and large presses, from left: Nortia Press, Delacorte, Royal Fireworks Press, HarperCollins, Curbstone Press (now part of Northwestern University Press), Nancy Paulsen Books (a Penguin Random House imprint), Cinco Puntos Press
It’s All Good! How You Can Create Diversity in Publishing
How parents and general readers can use their purchasing power to support diverse authors, alternative voices and a new generation of book-lovers.
However, had Rainha spent more time reading, she wouldn't have lost her crown.
How Rainha Lost Her Crown: A Mini-Story on the Importance of Reading and Libraries
A cautionary tale on the importance of reading serves also as a call for New York City's new mayor to increase funding for the city's public library systems.