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Reckoning with Torture: Amrit Singh & Matthew Alexander
Amrit Singh and Mathew Alexander read excerpts from a transcript of former CIA Director George Tenet's April 2007 appearance on CBS 60 Minutes, as part of the 2009 PEN… More
Reckoning with Torture: Nell Freudenberger Reads from an Interpreter’s Sworn Statement
Nell Freudenberger, author of Lucky Girls and recipient of the PEN/Malaud Award for short fiction, reads from the sworn statement of an interpreter at the Kandahar Detention Facility in… More
Fears for the Health of Prominent Human Rights Lawyer, Journalist, and Writer
PEN International is seriously concerned for the health of prominent writer, journalist, and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is said to be very weak as a result of a hunger… More
Cosmopolitan Readers
The idea is that a novelist who is ambitious enough to want a global audience, and who does not want to be imprisoned by his or her own language,… More
Iran: A Conversation with Maziar Bahari and The Daily Show’s Jason Jones
With Maziar Bahari and Jason Jones. In June 2009, Canadian-Iranian journalist, playwright, and documentary filmmaker Maziar Bahari was among hundreds of people arrested following the disputed Iranian presidential… More
Li Jianquang Acceptance Speech for Yang Tongyan
Yang Tongyan is a dissident writer and member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC). He is known for his critical writings published on web sites such as Boxun.com… More
On Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
The problem of Emma is the problem of desire. Her only métier is desire, and its top percent, love. Emma lusts for gratification through commodity and body and makes… More
Mausoleum of Lovers
One by one I began to rip off in chips the made-up skin of the little mannequin, and this gives him leprosy by leaving the exposed white wax on… More
On Translating Hervé Guibert
Le mausolée des amants makes every essential demand upon me; the sensual exigencies, and cruel untempered forms of address in this epistolary work...mark the rest of us as gilt… More
On Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
I saw, for the first time, what it really means to be a poet—to have the habit of mind where the universe reveals itself through linguistic forms the way,… More
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