Prayer and Meditation with Jackie Wang and Alain Mabanckou (video)
A wish, an invocation, an impassioned plea. For this contemplative evening of meditation, the Festival commissioned an esteemed assembly of writers and artists from a wide range of cultural… More
Charlie Hebdo and Challenges to Freedom of Expression (video)
Charlie Hebdo’s recently appointed editor-in-chief, Gérard Biard, and its film critic, Jean-Baptiste Thoret, visited the United States for the first time since the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office in… More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Lola Shoneyin (audio)
For this flagship opening night event, leading writers from around the globe presented their worst- and best-case scenarios for where the world may be in the year 2050, offering… More
Opening Night with Binyavanga Wainaina (audio)
For this flagship event, speakers gave intelligent, original, humorous, and lyrical insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
Memoir and Memory with Tracy K. Smith (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Michael Ondaatje (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Memoir and Memory with Luc Sante (audio)
Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens… More
Stories That Traveled (audio)
Africa offers rich, exciting, and enduring tales for young U.S. readers. Three authors of books for children and young adults—a storyteller, a poet, and a novelist—reveal the ways the… More
African Poets: A New Generation (audio)
This lavishly hip and intellectually robust poetry event, presented in association with Akashic Books, which recently published the box set Eight New-Generation African Poets, brings together editors Kwame Dawes… More
Ninety Minutes, Three Minds with Adéwálé Àjàdí (video)
Moderated by Vanity Fair staff editor Anderson Tepper, these conversations got up close with three top African writers: Adéwálé Àjàdí (Nigeria), activist and author of the hit play Abyssinia;… More