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2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

WinnerMia Alvar for In the Country: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)Read an excerpt » The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection… More

Replacement Songs

An experiment called soon / I’ll fall asleep in your pick-up / beyond the near grey mountains / smiling up at the moon and / here’s one called the… More

The PEN Ten with Moustafa Bayoumi

"A writer’s “revolutionary duty,” as Gabriel García Márquez once put it, is 'to write well.' The responsibility of a human being, on the other hand, is to practice compassion… More