Search Results for: PEN TEN

Day of Oprichnik

Always the same dream:I’m walking across an endless field, a Russian field. Ahead, beyond the receding horizon, I spy a white stallion; I walk toward him, I sense that… More

City Boy

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank… More

Canti

This lonely hill was always dear to me, and this hedgerow, which cuts off the view of so much of the last horizon. But sitting here and gazing, I can see beyond,… More

Play It That Way

Midway through the novel Mildred Pierce, the title character takes her famously awful daughter Veda to audition for a new piano teacher. Charlie Hannen has been recommended by some… More

Liao Yiwu: Grounded in China

The last time we checked in on the great Chinese writer, oral historian, and folk musician, Liao Yiwu (author of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the… More

Writers Hail U.N. Accord Ending Push to Ban Blasphemy

PEN American Center today praised the U.N. Human Rights Council for ending efforts to restrict speech considered offensive to religions, calling the Council’s recent unanimous vote on a religious… More