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The Emperor of All Maladies

On the morning of May 19, 2004, Carla Reed, a thirty-year-old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, Massachusetts, a mother of three young children, woke up in bed with a headache. More

Artists Declare State of Emergency in Belarus

An appeal to: Baroness Cathy Ashton, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, U.S. President Barack Obama, Spanish… More

Artists Declare State of Emergency in Belarus

An appeal to: Baroness Cathy Ashton, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, U.S. President Barack Obama, Spanish… More

PEN Appeal: Khadzhimurad Kamalov

December 19, 2011 President of the Russian Federation Mr. Dmitry Medvedev Kremlin Moscow Russia Fax: +7 095 206 5173 Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Mr. Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich Ishaya Dmitrovka 1 a… More

Fallout

My mother mapped out scenarios, calculating the reach of the radioactive fallout if the blast hit Kansas City, say, or Washington. She drew ominous red circles in our Rand-McNally… More

Essays from the Nick of Time

History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more:… More

On Translating Hocus Bogus

Written at high speed and completed in January 1976, Hocus Bogus is one of the most alarmingly effective mystifications in all literature. More