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No Standard Way: Five Questions for Susanna Daniel
As for the “End of Men,” I enjoyed the Atlantic piece, but I just can’t buy the idea that as women rise, men fall. More
Serious Men
Ayyan Mani’s thick black hair was combed sideways and parted by a careless broken line, like the borders the British used to draw between two hostile neighbours. More
PEN Appeal: Rafiq Tagi
November 22, 2011 President Ilham Aliyev Office of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic 19 Istiqlaliyyat Street Baku AZ1066 Azerbaijan Fax: + 994 12 492 0625 Minister of Internal Affairs Lt.-Gen. Ramil Usubov Ministry of Internal Affairs Husu… More
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Everything / you thought / you knew / you don’t. / Because you’ve stepped / off the edge / of your life / into sickland. More
PEN Appeal: Maikel Nabil Sanad
November 21, 2011 Director of Military Judiciary Major-General Ahmed Abd Allah Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax: +202 2 402 4468 / +202 2 411 3452 Military General Attorney Major-General Medhat Radwan Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt +202… More
Three Poems
A calm sign in the trees of May: she’s dead, / not like this dirge staining the air, her name / recited in the camphor-house where the chalk /… More
Birds in the Mouth
I turned off the TV and looked out the window. Silvia’s car was parked in front of the house, with the emergency lights on. I wondered if there was… More
PEN Deplores Occupy Wall Street Press Freedom Violations
Journalists were barred from streets in lower Manhattan surrounding Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of police in riot gear descended upon the park shortly after 1 a.m. on November 15. More
PEN Appeal: El Siglo de Torreón
November 17, 2011 Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, DISTRITO FEDERAL, México Fax: (+… More
Keeping Up with the Kids: Five Questions for George Dohrmann
Spending so many years around the players and the parents, it created a different dynamic than the one I typically have with subjects. I was more invested, although it… More