The PEN Ten: An Interview with Genevieve Hudson
“At their best, stories reveal the truth. They help us see the impact we have on ourselves, on our society, and on our planet.” More
The PEN Pod: Keeping Hope Alive with Jewher Ilham
“Only standing up, speaking up, on my father’s behalf, on Uyghurs’ behalf, to work on something, then we can at least try to make a small change.” More
The PEN Pod: Defending the Freedom to Write with Karin Deutsch Karlekar
“[It’s] important to not just look at numbers and to give trends a human face, and to really look at the individual cases of writers and intellectuals behind bars.” More
The PEN Pod: Looking Through Time with Rebecca Makkai
“Look at the ways that the American healthcare system, in times of crisis, exacerbates the fissures that are already there, the inequalities that are already there.” More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“The power of disinformation online, we see, is enormous.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Ishmael Beah
“I was taught, and know for a fact, that stories are medicine. . . Life will always break all of us in one way or another, and stories will… More
The PEN Pod: Literature as a Meditative COVID Companion with Lulu Miller
“The intensity of the moment is making ideas gurgle up and also just making reading and listening, when there is time, just so soothing.” More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
“When you speak, you need to think through where your words are going to land. . . [and] who might. . . interpret them in a very different way.” More
The PEN Pod: Claiming Ourselves Through Language with Jose Antonio Vargas
“There’s an emerging narrative around what it means to claim ourselves as people. . . Writing, for me, as an undocumented person was the only place where I was… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Samanta Schweblin, Translated by Megan McDowell
“There is no other technology as effective as literature to test ourselves, to confront our worst fears and try out reactions, survival methods, and thoughts.” More