A message went up on plywood after Election Day, but the peaceful transfer of power isn't always a given.
Democracy Wins!
Celebrating the election victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in New York City.
Four Years of Bullying
The dynamic of bully, victim, bystanders, and referees, and how it has played out in the U.S. over the past four years.
A Graphic Novel for the Armchair Traveler
A review of a graphic novel/memoir about a South Korean university student's introduction to resistance against her country's dictatorship in 1983.
Plebiscite
Seeing the 2020 election not as a contest between two presidential candidates but as an up-or-down vote on democracy itself.
Introducing Debut Novelist Alison Littman
An interview with Alison Littman, author of Radio Underground, set in Hungary in the aftermath of the failed 1956 uprising.
What New Adult Should Be: A Review of Radio Underground
Discussion of New Adult literature and a fresh new book from an upstart small press set in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
“Burn It All Down”
The scene in my novel where I burn it all down and show boys doing the right thing.
Family Heritage Trip, Part 2
A trip to Prague, where my daughter learned of the country's 20th century history and its struggle for freedom.
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?
Is Portugal a Model for Life Without Net Neutrality?
A discussion of why the recent image of a bundled mobile offering in Portugal is not a model for what will happen in the U.S. without #NetNeutrality.