Batten down the hatches! Here comes America 250.
How can we celebrate our history when the interpretation of history itself is now an issue that divides us?
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Towards a Trans Aesthetic
Kate Bornstein, Oliver Radclyffe, Meredith Talusan, Bishakh Som, and Jenny Boylan in conversation at the PEN America World Voices Festival
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My Country Turned on Me
What Mary Tyler Moore taught me about America, and the scars we all bear.
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June 2025

May 2025

If I Had Loved Her Less
What Almost Drowning Taught Me About Love. And also: Thoreau.
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Nothing to Declare
A trans journey in six passports-- some of them now invalidated by Donald Trump.
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Make America America Again
PEN America Literary Gala Keynote, 5/15/25
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What It Takes to Publish a Column
And Dick van Dyke's counsel for writers, and humans of every stripe.
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Time, and Time Again
The Blessings, and Curses, of Memory
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America in Five Paintings.
1491.
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April 2025

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