Eva Hoffman reads “A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto” by Czesław Miłosz
Eva Hoffman reads "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" by Czesław Miłosz. This week marks 11 years since Miłosz's death in 2004. More
PEN 2014 World Voices Festival: Pussy Riot
The image of the Russian dissident has changed. After campaigning for the release of the incarcerated members of Pussy Riot for eighteen months, PEN invites Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria… More
From the Archives: Margaret Atwood, Power of the Pen
Many people are howling, some howling grief because those they love have died or been killed. Others howl in triumph because they have caused the loved ones of their… More
American Sublime
We want Brasil but Brasil won’t win. Aden waves a desultory green and yellow flag. From the East to the West to the West to the East we scatter and settle and… More
Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
Of all my letters, there was one that I read again and again. It was a love letter. Of all my pictures, there was one that I stared at for long… More
Literature & Power: Writing About Politics
I know that French writers are supposed to speak too long, so I will try to be short. I don’t think that the power of literature has to do,… More
A History of Trauma
KHALED MATTAWA: What’s ringing in my ear now is the adverb “originally,” and I want to discuss with Hanan and Fadhil the issue of origins. My question for them… More
Inappropriate Appropriation
RICK MOODY: I think the pressing question of the PEN World Voices Festival is “Why, exactly, are we bothering?” The United States of America has become a culture that… More
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