The Evolution Revolution

Two hundred years after Charles Darwin began a discussion of human evolution, people are still talking. The discussion, and specifically the issue of teaching evolution to children, continued Sunday… More

PEN World Voices: Americans seduce foreigners

A couple of interesting PEN World Festival events happened over the weekend: Salman Rushdie and Paul Auster were at Instituto Cervantes (along with Michael Ondaatje and Richard Ford) to… More

Letting Their Voices Be Heard

As PEN’s World Voices Literary Festival kicked off with a gala at the Museum of Natural History, the literati came out to honor E.L. Doctorow and support the rights… More

Nawal El Saadawi

For more than 50 years, novelist, psychiatrist and activist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi has written books that focus on identity, sexuality and the legal status of women in the… More

PEN Gala

It was a perfect spring night for the PEN Literary Gala, held yesterday at the American Museum of Natural History. Tourists lingered on the portico as guests in evening… More

PEN fest offers plenty of Latino voices

This week’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will provide an excellent opportunity for New Yorkers to get a feel of how vast the "Latino" book world is. More