Ben Okri Reads “The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us”
Ben Okri reads his “stoku”—part story, part haiku—“The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us” during a conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper at the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Ben Okri Reads “As Clouds Do Drift”
Ben Okri reads “As Clouds Do Drift”—a poem he wrote for Twitter—during a conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper at the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Aleksandar Hemon Reads Tadeusz Borowski
Aleksandar Hemon reads "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman" by Tadeusz Borowski at the PEN event Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics, part of the 2010 PEN… More
Anouar Benmalek Reads Work by Tahar Djaout and Said Mekbel
Anouar Benmalek reads a poem by Tahar Djaout and a piece by Said Mekbel, both slain Algerian writers, at Banned Voices, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Poetry Reading: Entire Event
Nicole Brossard, Narcís Comadira, Wayne Koestenbaum, Uwe Kolbe, Fuad Rifka, and János Térey perform readings as part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Don DeLillo Reads from a CIA Memo
Don DeLillo reads an excerpt from a memo prepared by the CIA for the Justice Department concerning the agency's detention, interrogation, and rendition programs, as part of the 2009… More
Amrit Singh, Matthew Alexander, and Susanna Moore Read from a Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Amrit Singh, Matthew Alexander, and Susanna Moore, author and recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, read excerpts from the Combatant Status Review Tribunal of Guantánamo detainee Mustafa Ait Idr, as… More
Amrit Singh and Matthew Alexander Read from George Tenet Appearance on 60 Minutes
Amrit Singh and Matthew Alexander read excerpts from a transcript of former CIA Director George Tenet's April 2007 appearance on CBS 60 Minutes, as part of the 2009 PEN event… More
A Believer Nighttime Event: Entire
A Believer Nighttime Event with Isabel Hoving, Niccolò Ammaniti, Uzodinma Iweala, and Yasmina Khadra; featuring a reading from Eric Bogosian's new novel, an auction with Miranda July, and a… More
Eric Bogosian Commences A Believer Nighttime Event
Eric Bogosian, the M.C. for the evening, commences A Believer Nighttime Event, part of the 2007 PEN American World Voices Festival. More
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