Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

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.

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

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

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.

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