The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

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?

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

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

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!

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

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