Opening Night: On the Edge – Salman Rushdie

An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More

Opening Night: On the Edge – Judith Butler

An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More

The Bosnia List

“Are you a Bosnian, Yugoslavian or a Muslim?” his younger comrade barked at me. What was I? Was it a trick question? I was baffled how to answer. I… More

The Poets

Poets who love. / Poets who love Greece. / Poets who want to be loved and when they are, immediately leave poetry, relieved. / The poet who left poetry,… More

Two Poems by Todd Colby

. . .The night is fast approaching, / an almost liquid darkness seeps in over the highway / and invades the room I'm in, until electric light / simmers… More

Talking to Ourselves

. . . in short, advice isn’t much use, if you disagree with it you don’t listen, and if you already agree you don’t need it, never trust advice,… More

Recommended Events

AN EVENING WITH JOSEF WINKLERTuesday, April 29 at 7:30pmAustrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022Join acclaimed Austrian author Josef Winkler and special guests at this unique… More

McHale’s

It didn't occur to me that the seeming ordinariness of its ability to meet my every need, to be just the place that I wanted, one evening after another,… More

Across the Rooftops

In my evil dreams I had seen myself approach her with lascivious intent—with a cold thin cruel sexual mouth just parted slight-ways—and I went deep then to find a… More