Bravery in Poetry
PEN World Voices Festival teams up with The Poetry Society of America to present this thoughtful, elegantly staged evening of readings and dialogue on the importance of moral courage… More
Obsession: Andrew Solomon on Sleep
Author and essayist Andrew Solomon has written on a widely divergent range of topics, including Soviet artists, Libyan governance, childrearing, and the politics of the deaf. For this event,… More
Jonathan Lethem & Patti Smith
I would go to rummage sales or church bazaars and pick out books for pennies, for a quarter. I got a first edition Dickens with a green velvet cover… More
Lila Azam Zanganeh & Atiq Rahimi: Mother Tongue
LILA AZAM ZANGANEH: Atiq, you had written three novels in Persian, and then you switched from Persian to French for your most recent novel, The Patience Stone, and it… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
A Morning in Brooklyn It is too early yet to be awake. In a dreamjust now I walkedthrough a house I once lived ineverything shabby now varnished and glitteringa… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
LaborMy handwriting is rough, a prisoner’s scriptedletter, the cropped fields and your winter handsfolding into my pockets for lack of gloves.I could go in any direction in this field… More
Home & Away
Dorothea Dieckmann on Home & AwayWhen home is where you come from, aren’t you always away? On all your ways you want to come home again, trying to find… More
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