The PEN Ten with Uwem Akpan
If secondary school girls are being abducted for learning how to read and write, the whole enterprise of reading and writing is destroyed and a whole generation of girls… More
First Husband
He was close by and very eerie / He did not do the dishes / He retreated into our house / or he rode away in cabs / He… More
The PEN Ten with Lawrence Venuti
The translator ... bears an enormous responsibility, not just in relation to the source text, but in representing a foreign culture. Translations can create or strengthen stereotypes of foreign… More
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics
Little has changed since the turbulent summer of 2013, and the issue of surveillance remains an unsolved and chilling mystery. These four poems wrestle with the ethics of observation,… More
Eight Poems by Sara Deniz Akant
a horse / cries through the fog. / the little lion balconies / did stoop before his loss. More
Recommended Reading: Literary Sports Writing
These works of literary sports writing discuss much more than games. Award judges Joel Drucker, Chad Harbach, and Jackie MacMullan have chosen the following nine titles for the PEN/ESPN… More
The PEN Ten with Rigoberto González
Observation is posing interesting questions. Surveillance is getting specific answers. Only one of those is meant to be used against the private citizen. The line, then, depends entirely on… More
Recommended Reading: Art of Biography
Our judges James Atlas, Lisa Cohen, and Wendy Gimbel have chosen eight titles for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for a distinguished biography published in 2013. Get lost in… More
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