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“How Can Culture Survive in Exile?”
We may be allowed to take it as an encouraging symptom that you are asking us “How can culture survive in exile?” instead of raising the more skeptical question… More
Can an Author Relinquish Control?
Trusting one’s translators to be masters of their craft and do their jobs well is pretty much the best an author can do to help assure the quality of… More
Take Action: Eskinder Nega Verdict Due Next Week
[caption id="attachment_11203" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Eskinder Nega, photo by Lennart Kjörling"][/caption] Yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy issued a strong statement in support of 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award recipient Eskinder… More
The 1930s: In Defense of Expelled and Detained Writers
1930Fascism and PENThe rise of National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Spain present challenges to one of PEN’s founding tenets: that individual PEN centers and the organization as… More
Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong
Liu Xiaobo was in Hong Kong on Saturday. He sat silent in a frame, on an empty chair, as hundreds of people bent down to him, a sign of… More
Two Members of the Iranian Writers Association Arrested
Translator and women’s rights activist Manijeh Najm Eraghi (aka Araghi) and economist and writer Fariborz Raisdana, who were detained on June 3, 2012, and May 21, 2012, respectively for… More
The Hunger Angel
I carried all I had, but it wasn’t mine. Everything either came from someone else or wasn’t what it was supposed to be. A gramophone box served as a… More
“The Silent Strength of Liu Xia” Makes Its Premier on Chinese Soil
"The Silent Strength of Liu Xia," curated by Guy Sorman and A. D. Coleman, comprises 26 photographs created by the Beijing photographer and poet, and wife of the imprisoned… More
The Marvel of the World
SCENE 1FADE IN:Opening credits rollNo direct dialogueMedieval market squareMusic: “Frederick's Theme,” being played on medieval instruments (hautboy, proto-lute, tambor, recorder, etc.) to reflect the setting. The credit sequence is… More
Examination
For a long time I wished someone would break my nose, but nobody has ever had the guts, or, more likely, the time to do it. After a while… More