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Esteban Bedoya: El Apocalipsis seg??n Benedicto
Esteban Bedoya received the 2010 PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature. Read the English translation of this excerpt. La especial deferencia que daba el cardenal a su mucama… More
A Terrible Splendor
Fourth Set “I’m playing for my life”Tilden rose and stretched, decided to walk around the grounds for a few minutes. If he considered going to the locker room to see Gottfried… 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
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
An Oresteia
What are you waiting for? You have your / orders–strew the ground with fabrics, / now! / Make his path crimsoncovered! / purplepaved! redsaturated! 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
Mayor J¢n Gnarr wants Poet free from Chinese Prison
Mayor Jón Gnarr hosted ex-Beijing mayor Liu Qi at Reykjavík City hall today. Liu Qi is also the General Secretary of the Beijing Communist Party and was chairman of… 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
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