Rick Moody hosts an evening of conversation and performances featuring writer and musician Sufjan Stevens, and novelist Wesley Stace, who performs as John Wesley Harding, at PENultimate Lit: Music… More

Carolin Emcke in conversation with Mark Danner at the event Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Duong Thu Huong and Robert Stone discuss accepting the fate of a trouble-maker, writing as a moral imperative, and truth and beauty at Conversations in the Library, part of… More

Zadie Smith and Kurt Andersen discuss conceptions of the true world, post–White Teeth guilt and Protestant worry, the benefits of self-reinvention, dead white males, and a defense of gangsta… More

Patrick McGrath and Martin Amis discuss doubt, Pascal’s approach to faith, a plausible refutation of religion, the nepotistic figure of Christ, hadith and the theological gamble of suicide bombings,… More