Audio + Video
Adventures in the Skin Trade: Discussion and Q&A
Colum McCann and Michael Ondaatje take part in a discussion and answer questions from the audience at Adventures in the Skin Trade: A Conversation with Colum McCann & Michael… More
Monique Truong Reads from Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Monique Truong Reads from Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the 2007 Beyond Margins Celebration. More
Billy Crudup and Margaret Colin Perform a Short Play by Tom Stoppard
Billy Crudup and Margaret Colin perform a short play by Tom Stoppard at Viva the Belarus Free Theater. More
Joseph M. Marshall III Reads from The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
Joseph M. Marshall III Reads from The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn at the 2008 Beyond Margins Celebration. More
Marie Ponsot Reads from Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen
Marie Ponsot reads from Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen at the 2007 Beyond Margins Celebration. More
Voices Against Torture: Writers and Lawyers on the Way Forward
Writers and lawyers discuss their work and its relationship to combating torture, as well as the role writers and lawyers play in exposing human rights abuses and reminding nations… More
Maureen Aung Thwin Discusses Free Expression in Burma
Maureen Aung-thwin, director of the Open Society Institute's Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative, discusses the suppression of free expression in Burma at the 2008 event Reading Burma: A Benefit for… More
Bernardo Atxaga Reads “Life According to Adam” and Other Poems
Bernardo Atxaga reads "Life According to Adam" and other poems at Readings From Around the Globe, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. Read the poems below. More
Siri Hustvedt Discusses the Arrest of Maung Zargana
Siri Hustvedt discusses the recent arrest of comedian, poet and activist Maung Zargana at Reading Burma: A Benefit for Cyclone Relief and Freedom of Expression in Burma. More
Is Nonfiction Literature?
Colum McCann, Philip Gourevitch, and Norbert Gstrein discuss the role of imagination in writing nonfiction, the role of nonfiction in the writing of fiction, and nonfiction's place in the… More
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