Losers of a Revolution
A discussion of what happens to the losing side in a revolution, inspired by my reading of Sonia Manzano's Coming Up Cuban.
Messages posted on the wall in the Fourteenth St. subway tunnel between Sixth and Seventh Aves.
A Book for Survival
Book recommendations on surviving authoritarianism and finding joy despite repression.
Banned Books and Little Free Libraries
September 18-25 is Banned Books Week this year in the United States. In the past, people have observed this week with readings from books that had been challenged in schools…
Tyrannies of Right and Left
A review off Margarita Engle's new verse novel Your Heart, My Sky and a defense of democracy and human rights.