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Jailing the Messenger
Panelists Ronald Dworkin, Vanessa Leggett, Anthony Lewis, Norman Pearlstine, and Helen Zia discuss protection of sources and freedom of speech, as part of the 2006 event Jailing the Messenger:… More
Alain Mabanckou Discusses the Need for Languages
Alain Mabanckou discusses the need to learn several languages at Multiple Passports: Writers on the Homeland and Identity, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Adriaan Vas Dis Discusses Homeland and Identity
Adriaan Vas Dis discusses nationalism and becoming the "other" at Multiple Passports: Writers on the Homeland and Identity, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Crossing Over: The 2009 Beyond Margins Celebration
Recent Oprah Book Club pick Uwem Akpan (Say You're One of Them; Little, Brown and Company), Juan Felipe Herrera (Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems;… More
Writers Rally for Release of Liu Xiaobo
E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, Honor Moore, and other PEN Members gather on the steps of the New York Public Library to demand… More
A.M. Homes Reads from “The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship” and from the Verdict against Liu Xiaobo
A.M. Homes reads from "The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship" and from the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court verdict against Liu Xiaobo, as part of the 2009 event… More
Don DeLillo Reads from an Article and a Poem by Liu Xiaobo
Don DeLillo reads from the 2006 article "Can it be that the Chinese People Deserve Only 'Party-Led Democracy'" and a poem by Liu Xiaobo, as part of the 2009… More
Hwang Sok-Yong Reads from The Old Garden
Hwang Sok-Yong reads from his novel The Old Garden at DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ?89, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Translation Slam
Internationally renowned translators test their linguistic mettle against each other in a duel to the translation death at the Translation Slam, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
Emmanuel Guibert, David Polonsky, and Shaun Tan, with moderator by Jonathan Ames, discuss using pictures to tell challenging and compelling stories at 1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling,… More
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