Her Word

We are creating a world divided between faith-based fanaticism on the one hand, and amoral science and global market “logic” on the other. >> Read the story More

El festival de PEN

El texto literario es una promesa que nunca se alcanza. >> Read the story More

In a Break From Mystery, A Writer Turns to Africa

GOTHENBURG, Sweden--To many English speakers Henning Mankell is probably best known as the creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander, a morose, self-loathing plainclothes officer whose dark vision of himself is… More

Pamuk: Iraq war is the shame of US and West

Turkey's internationally acknowledged novelist, Orhan Pamuk, leveled harsh criticism at the U.S.-led war in Iraq by saying that the Iraq war did not bring peace or democracy to the… More

Rushdie acusa a Bush

Hay momentos en los que los escritores son realmente importantes. Y el actual es uno de ellos, según el novelista Salman Rushdie, presidente del festival literario PEN Voces del… More

On Faith & Reason

Nothing that happens in my country matters In the large scheme of things But when I am there Breathing the dusty air of the dry months A cruel April to defy Eliot I know… More

Faith & Reason

Here & ElsewhereI cannot write I cannot writewhen I want to, when I need to.I mean I cannot writewhat must be writtenwhat demands to be written.Every morning I ask… More

The New Religion

The body is a nation I have not known. The pure joy of air: the moment between leaping from a cliff into the wall of blue below. Like that. More