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The Child

ZELDA: You never touched your bank account. / VANESSA: No. / ZELDA: How come? / VANESSA: It belonged to another person. I was no longer that person. I… More

The Noon Signal

These are the available facts regarding the Clementinum’s Astronomical Tower: it is the pale yellow of butter pecan ice cream; the eight-sided cupola at its apex boasts a wrap-around… More

Ah Write!

Ah write / ‘cause sometimes / My spirit like it waan’ die / Ah write / ‘cause the hurt / Bitter like cyakkle tongue / Ah write / ‘cause… More

View on an Accident

Yesterday on that same corner, a young man on a motorcycle was hit by a car. I heard it happen: the familiar shriek of tire on asphalt, the crunch… More

2014 Opening Letter

Dear Friends,Ten years ago, in 2004, Salman Rushdie, then President of the PEN American Center, had the idea of initiating an international literature festival in New York City—something which… More

How to Circumvent the Twitter Blockade

The same day PEN announced that Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, will be awarded the inaugural PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Digital Freedom Award, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan… More