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Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending… More
Online Art Auction Benefit for PEN Haiti
PEN has joined forces with online auction site Paddle8 for a unique benefit auction to support PEN Haiti. Artist Sébastien Jean, whose work has been shown at the Venice… More
A Freedom to Write Retrospective: Eskinder Nega
Each week leading up to the PEN Literary Gala and the conferrence of the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on May 5, PEN will feature the story… More
Talking to Ourselves
. . . in short, advice isn’t much use, if you disagree with it you don’t listen, and if you already agree you don’t need it, never trust advice,… More
Recommended Events
AN EVENING WITH JOSEF WINKLERTuesday, April 29 at 7:30pmAustrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022Join acclaimed Austrian author Josef Winkler and special guests at this unique… More
Three Questions with Cathy Park Hong
In literature, dystopic narrative has been used hubristically as a way to face one’s own mortality. An aging author, say someone like John Updike, conjures an apocalyptic narrative because… More
Victory for Net Freedom Advocates as Brazil Passes Landmark Internet Legislation
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed the Marco Civil into law, a welcome victory in the battle for free expression and net freedom in South America's largest economy. More
Across the Rooftops
In my evil dreams I had seen myself approach her with lascivious intent—with a cold thin cruel sexual mouth just parted slight-ways—and I went deep then to find a… More
Galileo Was a Moron
So in [Galileo's] opinion everything in the world and in life—all the people and trees and shells and starfish and seahorses and traffic lights and jellyfish—can be broken down… More
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