Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, and Margaret Colin Perform an Excerpt from “Laws of War”
Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, and Margaret Colin perform an excerpt from Laws of War at the 2011 PEN event "Viva the Belarus Free Theater" at Le Poisson Rouge in… More
An Around the World Reading
With Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Karl O. Knausgaard, Anne Landsman, Thomas Pletzinger, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa More
Mary Gaitskill Reads a Diary Entry by Beverly Jaynes
Mary Gaitskill reads a diary entry by Beverly Jaynes, a prisoner at WERDCC in Vandalia, Missouri, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
Reckoning with Torture: Live at Sundance
What's at stake when a government condones torture?From the frontlines of the war on terror comes a one-of-a-kind live event directed for the stage by Doug Liman. Exposed through… More
Liu Xia on Having Liu Xiaobo’s Papers Confiscated by Chinese Authorities
Liu Xia on having papers belonging to her husband, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, confiscated by the police in 2004. More
Reading Liu Xiaobo’s Greed’s Prisoner
Liu Xiaobo's wife, Liu Xia, and Victoria Redel read Greed's Prisoner (for the dispossessed wife), a poem written by Liu Xiaobo, recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. More
Kidnapped!
Daniele Mastrogiacomo in Conversation with Federico Rampini More
PEN Weather Report: What Can We Do?
With Jostein Gaarder, James Hansen, Frederic Hauge, Bjørn Lomborg, Bill McKibben, Andrew Revkin, and Cynthia Rosenzweig; moderated by Robert SilversAs part of our continuing collaboration with The New York… More
Marie Ponsot Reads an Untitled Poem by Scott Walt
Marie Ponsot reads Scott Walt's untitled poem, winner of an honorable mention for poetry in PEN's 2004 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation
Join novelist Claire Messud and a prestigious panel for a lively debate on gender, culture, and literature in translation. In the 21st century, few writers want to be classified… More