Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Between the World and Me. Read an excerpt of the book. More
The Disappearance Approach
He was lying in his bed with his eyes closed. I knew when I saw him with the CPAP mask over his mouth and nose and heard the whooshing… More
Two Poems by Justin Phillip Reed
In his hands / my skull opens like a flue. I am coal ash / into winter hubris. He is not the kind / to come with warning. My… More
The PEN Ten with Marlon James
"Writers do have a collective purpose, and that’s to write. I think we writers have managed to convince ourselves that that's not enough. Why is that? Writing can actually… More
UFO Meets the Great East Japan Earthquake
Hideo Furukawa blends fiction, memoir, and history to tell the story of a man's journey back to his childhood home near Fukushima after the March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake,… More
The Book Report: William Brewer
These are books that continue to recalibrate my brain after countless re-readings. More
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
All day / I hear the fallen, trampled leaves groaning. / Such is the afternoon of life / It reports the time that has already passed. More
Five Poems by Hannah Ensor
There was a CFP / about vulva-touching / I responded / I said I am currently / touching my vulva / I was accepted / to the conference /… More
The PEN Ten with John Murillo
"It was after the Rodney King verdicts were announced in April of 1992. I remember feeling simultaneously pleased and disappointed with myself that my first response was to want… More
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