The PEN Pod: On the Power of Poetry with Natasha Trethewey
“Poetry can save us. It can, in many ways, unite us because of the sheer intimacy of a single voice that might reach someone.” More
A Linked History: A World Voices Festival Reading List From Jeremy Tiang
Playwright and translator Jeremy Tiang shares literary gems from Singapore and Malaysia—countries with complex, linked histories. More
Translating the Future
The Translating the Future conference, co-sponsored by PEN America, commemorates and carries forward PEN’s 1970 World of Translation conference. More
Drama as Reading: A World Voices Festival Reading List from Si’an CHEN
Playwright and translator Si’an CHEN curates a diverse, immersive selection of plays that are full of energy, and whose words are profound. More
Comfort in Wisdom: A World Voices Festival Reading List from Szczepan Twardoch
For his reading list, Polish writer Szczepan Twardoch shares illuminating texts that examine history and culture for difficult times. More
The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah
“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More
The PEN Pod: Challenging Our Paradigms with Julia Alvarez
“What [reading] asks of us is to become the other, to become someone else. And those are the same muscles that we use when we’re activists for social justice.“ More
Finding Meaning: A World Voices Festival Reading List from Peter Stamm
For his reading list, award-winning novelist Peter Stamm turned to the central question: How does one deal with a meaningless world? More
Let’s Be Human(e): A World Voices Festival Reading List from Ananda Naima González
Ananda Naima González shares a book list containing works that claw into your heart, seeking to discover what it means to be human(e). More
The PEN Pod: On the Inequities of Survival with Megan Giddings
“Our healthcare system in this country is so deeply inequitable and hostile toward the people it’s supposed to serve.“ More