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PEN Translation Committee Takes the Stage at BookExpo America
This year, for the first time, BookExpo America (BEA), held each May at the Javits Center in Manhattan, featured translation as the focus of its Global Market Forum.As a… More
Twitter CEO optimistic, says news about company’s decline is exaggerated
While Wall Street is concerned over reports of Twitter's slowed user growth, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is optimistic. "We had re-accelerating user growth in our biggest market, the U.S., in… More
Salman Rushdie Respects Twitter, Is Also Kind of Over It
“Oh, that old thing,” Salman Rushdie groans when you bring up the fatwa issued against him by the Ayatollah over his depiction of Mohammed in his novel The Satanic… More
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending… More
Poet Omar Hazek Imprisoned
PEN protests the two-year prison sentence handed to Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who has been held in custody since his arrest in early December 2013 for taking part in… More
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Marks Tenth Anniversary, April 28-May 4, 2014
A Weeklong Series of Readings, Debates, Performances, and Workshop Celebrates Writers Who Have Taken Artistic and Political RisksParticipants include Adonis, Boris Akunin, Martin Amis, Lydia Davis, Timothy Garton Ash,… More
Alexandria Irrealis
The Alexandria that Constantine Cavafy knew no longer exists. Nor does the Alexandria that E. M. Forster got to know during the First World War, nor the Alexandria that… More
Day of Rage
we checked it all out, twice we passed / the policeman in his sentry-box… / when we dispersed in the half gloom of side-streets / I noted this image:… More
The Blood of Love
If memory is all that can be kept of the past, how might it be kept alive? And if there is no life we can see beyond this one,… More
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