The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

Depression is always in the details.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.