Family secrets, generational trauma and forbidden love collide in “The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” a profound yet directionless production that opened at The Goodman Theatre on Monday night.
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I read Rick Riordan’s “The Lightning Thief” for the first time during a fourth-grade field trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land. My friends were shouting about the cool cars...
Yesterday, I found myself on the Greyhound bus at 9 a.m., openly crying reading Junot Díaz’s new article in The New Yorker entitled, “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma.” I have loved his...
Immigrants of this generation should dig deeper into their parents’ experiences in order to comprehensively understand their identity, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz said in a speech Thursday...
Author Junot Diaz will speak at Northwestern later this month as part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, the organization announced Tuesday.
Diaz, a writing professor at the Massachusetts...
