“No Language Has Power Over Another”: A PEN Ten Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
"The process of translation makes clear that no one language has power over another." More
DARE: Border Agents Confiscated Lawmakers’ Phones. Joaquin Castro Captured Photo and Video Anyway.
Photos emerge from government immigrant detention centers closed to public view. Trump administration abandons adding citizenship question to the 2020... More
Reclaiming Our Time: A Reading List
A feminist reading list in celebration of next week's PEN Out Loud event: Reclaiming Our Time, a feminist retrospective featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Min Jin Lee, and Morgan Jerkins… More
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Esper said he didn't know where he was going when he became Trump's prop at the church. But he knew who he was going with. Glad he's speaking out, but next time he's asked to blindly follow the President, a quasi-apology after-the-fact won't cut it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-church-photo-op-took-defense-secretary-esper-gen-n1222391
Our CEO @SuzanneNossel writes in her capacity as an NYC public school parent, urging the Dep't of Education to make detailed plans to reopen schools in September, and arguing that it can be done.
"In the face of an Aggressive Menace dripping with contempt for your humanity and wishing, when it cannot exploit you, to punish you, to terrorize and torment you, what use is hope?" writes @TochiTrueStory about American unrest: https://bit.ly/2XogPtj