Supernova (Excerpted Pieces)
“The one person who is always there for me is not there. I feel that I face the world alone. I stand on the outside: I'm not like the… More
A Reading and Conversation with Sheila Heti and Sigrid Nunez
Primahood: Magenta
"Tyler Cohen is a pro at tackling the sticky subjects of gender identity, sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to be a girl." More
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On #IndependenceDay2022, after the attack on @SalmanRushdie (who wrote stunningly on this day’s power in Midnight’s Children♥️), I’m thinking about how critical #FreedomOfSpeech is to any #democracy
Sharing a #poem published today by @PENamerica to commemorate #IndiaAt75
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"We forgot that nothing is permanent, least of all freedom"—@ghazalawahab
Read all the contributions to PEN America's #IndiaAt75 anthology at: http://PEN.org/india-at-75
For the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, I participated in this extraordinary project, which brings together over a hundred Indian and diaspora writers to reflect on free expression and democracy https://pen.org/india-at-75/