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PEN Appeal: Ales Bialiatski
November 28, 2011 President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr G. Lukashenko Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: + 375 172 26 06 10 or +375 172 22 38 72 Your Excellency, On behalf… More
Angina Days
Powdered milk from the firm of Harrison Bros., Chicago, / dried egg from Walker’s, Merrymaker & Co., of Kingstown, Alabama, / any flour left unconfiscated by the German camp… More
PEN Files UN Free Expression Reports on Bahrain, Ecuador, and South Africa
PEN submitted two more submissions—one on Bahrain and one on Ecuador—to the Universal Periodic Review at the UN, the process that reviews the human rights record of all member… More
No Standard Way: Five Questions for Susanna Daniel
As for the “End of Men,” I enjoyed the Atlantic piece, but I just can’t buy the idea that as women rise, men fall. More
Remembering Daniel and Anna Keel
Sometime in the spring of 1997 I met my German publisher, Daniel Keel, for the first time. I was in Zürich for the publication of the German translation of… More
PEN Files UN Free Expression Reports on Bahrain, Ecuador, and South Africa
PEN contributed two more submissions—one on Bahrain and one on Ecuador—to the Universal Periodic Review at the UN, the process that reviews the human rights record of all member countries… More
Essays from the Nick of Time
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more:… More
Serious Men
Ayyan Mani’s thick black hair was combed sideways and parted by a careless broken line, like the borders the British used to draw between two hostile neighbours. More
Hopeful Tussles: Martha Cooley on Poetry in Translation
Two different poetic languages representing two different ways of experiencing the world: these might at first seem essentially incompatible, perhaps even warring—but they’re not. They’re really two lovers (seeking… More
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