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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
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