Editor’s Note

The first annual PEN World Voices Festival brought together 125 writers from around the globe for a week of intense conversation about language, culture, crime, catastrophe, death, sex, religion—the… More

Rushdie acusa a Bush

Hay momentos en los que los escritores son realmente importantes. Y el actual es uno de ellos, según el novelista Salman Rushdie, presidente del festival literario PEN Voces del… More

PEN Writes to Senate Appropriations Committee

PEN President Salman Rushdie addressed the following letter to members of the House-Senate Defense Appropriations conference committee on behalf of PEN American Center. More

Rushdie, una voz libre de condenas

Sin la sombra del decreto religioso que lo condenó a muerte —anulado por el gobierno iraní en 1998—, Salman Rushdie recibió a Ñ en Nueva York, donde vive y… More

A Crowd That’s Seldom at a Loss for Words

It was one of the largest international gatherings of writers in New York since the PEN international congress of 1986. All this week, some 125 writers from 43 countries… More

Salman Rushdie Interview

It’s ridiculous that New York doesn’t have an international literary festival. It was an obvious hole in the cultural calendar we wanted to fill. More