PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.” 🧵⬇️

We approve the opening sentence to the novel, The Lone Wolf, by Vance: "It must have been Bourke who first said that even if you knew your way about Paris you had to lose it in order to find it to Troyon's. But then Bourke was proud to be Irish."

“Beja reflects on coming to terms with a part of herself that had been stolen from her: her bicultural and biracial identity.” Irene Marques reviews Olinda Beja’s “sparkling collection.” worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

“I am studying the imagined playgrounds,   wondering what my mantra might be.” From “Slide Mantra,” a poem in our January issue by Brandon Som, who was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january...

We had no choice but to hear you. You stated your case time and again.