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

It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.