Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel discuss how hybrid culture has replaced the never-existent mainstream and how the short story has evolved. This panel discussion… More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses character, craft, and the writing process with Vientamese-Australian author Nam Le during a conversation that took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices… More

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, discusses his life and work with Adam Gopnik in a conversation at the 2009 PEN World Voices… More

Adrian Tomine and Yoshihiro Tatsumi discuss the evolution of comics in Japan, the U.S., and around the world at Revolutionary Writers, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Marguerite Abouet, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yasmina Khadra, and Uzodinma Iweala discuss the experience of displacement and the emotional locations of language at the event Words Without Borders: Every Day in… More

Excerpt from an interview with Kenneth Hartman, author of Mother California who is serving a life sentence in California for a murder he committed at 19, from the 2009… More

Former Random House Editor-in-Chief, author, and journalist Daniel Menaker talks to one of Israel?s foremost literary figures, Meir Shalev, in a conversation that took place as part of the… More