In 2018 Junot Díaz was swept up in the #MeToo reckoning. His was a complicated case: Díaz’s writing often speaks truth to power and gives voice to those underrepresented in mainstream literature; he himself was a victim of sexual abuse—as he revealed publicly just before the controversy erupted. So how, then, do we make sense of his response to the women who came forward and accused him? This is the subject of an essay I published in Persimmon Tree, “The Reckoning of Junot Díaz” in the fall of 2019: https://persimmontree.org/fall-2019/the-reckoning-of-junot-diaz/.