PEN Appeal: Lydia Cacho

June 15, 2009 Lic. Félix González Canto Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo. Administración 2005 - 2011 Palacio de Gobierno. Av. 22 de Enero No. 001 Col. Centro. C.P. 77000. Chetumal, Quintana Roo,… More

Death In Venice

All novels are translations, even in their original languages. This has been revealed to me over time, as I’ve worked with the various dedicated (and inevitably underpaid) people who… More

Marie ??tienne: King of a Hundred Horsemen

Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker received the 2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Preface by Marilyn Hacker Marie Étienne has always composed poetry and prose alternately… More

King of a Hundred Horsemen

Dans mon enfance, j’avais appris a courir vite autour/ des tables./ Plus je courais, moms je me faisais prendre./ Les Père Noel exacts venaient jusqu’aux tropiques, ils/ m’apportaient des… More

2666

When Rosa fell asleep he took off her high-heeled shoes and covered her with a blanket. He turned off the lights and for a while he stood looking out… More

Everything Is Cinema

Though few young filmmakers would imitate Breathless, many would imitate Godard himself, such as Breathless revealed him to be: an artistically voracious autodidact devoted fanatically to the history of… More

Death in Venice

Gustav Aschenbach or von Aschenbach, as he had officially been known since his fiftieth birthday, set out alone from his residence in Munich’s Prinzregentenstrasse on a spring afternoon in… More

Unilaterally Punitive

The United States is unique in the world for its overzealous love affair with life without parole sentences (LWOP). It is one of the few western countries to have… More

PEN Appeal: Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández

May 21, 2009 Raúl Castro Ruz Presidente c/o Cuban Interests Section 2639 16th St, NW Washington, DC 20009 Fax: (202) 797-8521 General Abelardo Coloma Ibarra Ministro del Interior y Prisiones c/o Cuban Interests Section 2639 16th St, NW Washington,… More

PEN Appeal: El Malick Seck

May 15, 2009 His Excellency President Abdoulaye Wade President of the Republic of Senegal Office of the President Avenue Aoume Dakar, Republic of Senegal Fax: 221 33 823 1702 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,300 members… More