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Writers Urge U.N. to Abandon Efforts to Prohibit Defamation of Religions
At a panel held in conjunction with the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, writers and free-expression advocates from around the world today warned of the potential harm of… More
Fears for Health of Imprisoned Editor
International PEN is seriously concerned about the health of Le Devoir editor Robert Mintya, who has been imprisoned pending trial for alleged forgery since February 2010. Mintya has recently… More
Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems
Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved :// when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved ? More
An Interview with Don DeLillo
Sinclair Lewis called for 'a literature worthy of our vastness.' A novelist tends to feel this spread and breadth in his fingertips (or not) and I’ve tried to bring… More
Michael Henry Heim: Wonder
From “The Statue Garden”The columns are identical, made of concrete and topped by an old-fashioned crown of braided leaves (laurel branches?), a bulging shaft, and a square base. Mass… More
Canyon Sam: Sky Train
Canyon Sam received a 2010 Open Book Award.At the beginning of my fifth week, I flew from Chengdu in western China to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a three-hour flight… More
Thelonious Monk
Benetta Smith—known affectionately as “Teeny”—loved to visit her Aunt Nellie and Uncle Thelonious. For a kid growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, the Monks’ tiny ground-floor… More
Human Moments in WWIII
This is a human moment, and it reminds me that war, among other things, is a form of longing. More
An Oresteia
What are you waiting for? You have your / orders–strew the ground with fabrics, / now! / Make his path crimsoncovered! / purplepaved! redsaturated! More
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