After Charlottesville
Claire Messud, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Robert Pinsky reflect on the hatred boiling over in our country. More
from Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA
Vaccaro’s legion of critics would accuse him of hypocrisy. After all, he made his living for years off the unpaid players. More
from Patient H.M.
Memories make us. Everything we are is everything we were. This has always been true and is so obvious that it hardly needs to be said. More
from Evicted
What the judge was saying, in essence, was: We all agree that you were poor and scared when you did this violent, hurtful thing. More
from The Girls in My Town
With the fortune-teller’s words echoing in my head, I told myself to fight like a warrior. Screaming felt good. I screamed until my throat became sandpaper. More
Class Notes: A Protest March
September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality… More
from Dark Money
Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Read an excerpt from the book. More
from Known and Strange Things
Teju Cole's "Known and Strange Things" is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Jean/Stein Book Award. Here's an essay from the collection. More
PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History ($10,000)
For a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. More
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
"Rain and two more of its wondrous pride—clouds and rainbows—have inspired writers, painters, and poets for thousands of years. Homer’s Iliad is thick with clouds, as is much of… More
