Snail’s House
The formative experience of reading cannot be ignored. We are not just the product of a family or of a society, of a religion or of an ethnicity, of… More
From the Arhcives: A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard
She realized that living was just what it was not. That a will of its own was just what it did not have. It was dead and blind and… More
Burma: Bones Will Crow
Two of the Burma’s most esteemed poets, Zeyar Lynn and Khin Aung Aye, read from their work and discuss the country’s budding literary scene with the editor of Bones… More
Workshop—Jacobin: What the Wu-Tang Clan Tells Us About Political Publishing
In a digital, post-political age, Jacobin, a young political print journal, has managed to thrive. Its founder covers the utility of intellectual journals in the 21st century, the future… More
Red Storm Days
Twenty-four descriptions of the future: / Champagne after a trip in a carriage, / Discontents without civilization, / A bizarre light will unsteady the air More
What I Learned at the HotINK/PEN Translation Panel
It occurs to me that the word "shit" just isn't funny enough. I don't know if this has been done before, but if I were ever to do a… More
I Loved Earth Years Ago
I no longer call his death in Tennessee a murder I call it an execution, executed for being queer. It happened over a dozen years ago and few believed… More
Five Questions with Patrice Nganang, Cameroonian Human Rights Advocate & Author
PEN interviews Cameroonian author, professor, and human rights advocate Patrice Nganang on the jailed writer Enoh Meyomesse and how people can help. More
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