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All the Pretty Horses
In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay… More
Cities of the Plain
Well there was all these jackrabbits in the road. They’d set there and freeze in the lights. Blap. Blap. I looked over at Gene and I said: What do… More
The Crisis and How to Deal with It
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on… More
Beauty of the Father
CHARACTERSMarina, a young woman of twenty-fiveEmiliano, a man in his mid-forties, early fiftiesPaquita, a woman in her late forties, early fiftiesKarim, a young man of twenty-fiveFederico García Lorca, the… More
Death in Venice
Gustav Aschenbach or von Aschenbach, as he had officially been known since his fiftieth birthday, set out alone from his residence in Munich’s Prinzregentenstrasse on a spring afternoon in… More
Unilaterally Punitive
The United States is unique in the world for its overzealous love affair with life without parole sentences (LWOP). It is one of the few western countries to have… More
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
10. Young OsamaAl-Thaghr sat on several dozen arid acres lined by eucalyptus trees, whose branches were twisted by winds from the Red Sea. The campus spread north from the… More
Assessing the fallout from Tiananmen
The bloody scars of the past have been airbrushed out of the photo and those who try to draw attention to that cleansing of the historical record have been… More
King of a Hundred Horsemen
Marie Étienne, born in Menton in the Alpes-Maritimes, spent her childhood in Indochina, in what is now Vietnam, during the Second World War and the beginning of the Viet… More
The Poet in an Unknown Prison
On April 16, the PEN American Center named the Beijing-based writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo the recipient of the 2009 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. The award honors… More
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