After Charlottesville
Claire Messud, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Robert Pinsky reflect on the hatred boiling over in our country. More
Now What, America? Writers Reflect on the Election
PEN America asked some of the country and the world's prominent writers of all backgrounds to share with us their short reflections on lessons learned during the 2016 U.S.… More
A Conversation: Richard Flanagan with Claire Messud (video)
Australia’s leading novelist, Richard Flanagan, makes his first U.S. appearance since his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a harrowing account of his father’s time in a… More
In Conversation: Herta Muller and Claire Messud
In her first New York appearance in over a decade, after a reading from her forthcoming novel The Hunger Angel, Müller will be interviewed by another literary titan, Claire… More
An Activist Guide to PEN World Voices
[caption id="attachment_11028" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="PEN World Voice Festival of International Literature"][/caption] For over 90 years, PEN has promoted literature and defended free expression by advocating on behalf of threatened writers… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Women and Sex
The PEN World Voices Festival kicked off with a panel about women and fiction in translation that addressed big, messy topics... that are impossible to put to rest. Needless… More
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