Jameel Jaffer, Director of ACLU's National Security Project, offers opening remarks to the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror". More

George Saunders reads the statement of German citizen Khaled El-Masrim, an innocent victim of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture:… More

With Hanif Kureishi, Tracie Morris, Luc Sante, and others; moderated by Sarah Schulman.In the 1970s politicians and real estate developers promised New Yorkers that an expanded tax base was… More

With Carmen Boullosa, Ben Greenman, Karen Finley, Mykola Riabchuk, Dale Peck, Amy Scholder, and Monika Zgustova; moderated by Lisa Dierbeck of Mischief + Mayhem.Maverick writers and editors battle mainstream… More

With Marcelo Figueras, Manuel de Lope, Enrique Serna, and Teresa Solana; moderated by Eduardo Lago.As in previous editions of the festival, Instituto Cervantes hosts a panel on the state… More

With Michelle Alexander, John Lonergan, Susan Rosenberg, and Shahrnush Parsipur; moderated by Jackson Taylor.The prison industry has become a profitable social solution. It hides and silences whole segments of… More

Sean Wilsey reads a diary entry by Charles Patrick Norman, a prisoner at the Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More

Eve Ensler, best-selling author and acclaimed playwright, reads from a speech by George W. Bush commemorating the United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture, as part of… More

Ishmael Beah reads an excerpt from a sworn statement of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, former lead prosecuter in the military commission case of detainee Mohammed Jawad, as part of… More