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Confronting the Worst: Q&A
The panel takes questions from the audience at Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Hari Kunzru Reads “The Crime and Punishment of Yang Yunbiao, Evictee” by Li Jianqiang
Hari Kunzru reads "The Crime and Punishment of Yang Yunbiao, Evictee" by Li Jianqiang at the 2008 event Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak. More
Voices Against Torture: Entire Event
A discussion with Jane Mayer, Anouar Benmalek, Elisa Massimino, and Scott Horton, moderated by Dahlia Lithwick at the 2008 event Voices Against Torture: Writers and Lawyers on the Way… More
Raja Shehadeh Reads from Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh reads from Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Nicole Brossard Reads from Fences in Breathing
Nicole Brossard reads several of her poems and from her novel Fences in Breathing at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Jose Dalisay Reads from Soledad’s Sister
Jose Dalisay reads from his novel Soledad's Sister at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Muriel Barbery Reads from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery reads from The Elegance of the Hedgehog (L'élégance du hérisson) in French at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Sergio Ramírez Reads from A Thousand Deaths Plus One
Sergio Ramirez reads from A Thousand Deaths Plus One (in Spanish) at the event Evolution/Revolution, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in Conversation with Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik interviews French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio during a conversation which took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
Muriel Barbery, Salwa Al Neimi, José Manuel Prieto, and George Packer discuss how writing from the past persists and influences contemporary writers at Resonances: Writers on the Great Works,… More