Audio + Video
Francisco Goldman Reads from The Long Night of White Chickens
Francisco Goldman reads from his novel The Long Night of White Chickens at The Secret Lives of Cities, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Salman Rushdie Reads Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Salman Rushdie reads "Campo dei Fiori" and "In Warsaw" by Czeslaw Milosz at the event An Evening Without..., part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Video Testimony of Guantánamo Detainee Omar Deghayes
Former Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes describes his experience at Guantánamo Bay. The original video was aired at the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the… More
Conversation: Rodrigo Fresán & Jonathan Lethem (Entire Event)
Rodrigo Fresán and Jonathan Lethem discuss monolinguistic American writers, narrative emulating collage, the relation of artists to neoteny, and more at the BenettonTalk Young Writers Series, part of the… More
Gioconda Belli Reads Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Lecture
Gioconda Belli reads Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Lecture at the event An Evening Without..., part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Video Testimony of Guantánamo Detainee Moazzam Begg
Former Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg describes his experience at Guantánamo Bay. The original video was aired at the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the… More
Conversations in the Library: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Philip Gourevitch
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Philip Gourevitch discuss Islamic Enlightenment, liberal betrayal, and Christian and Muslim provincialism at Conversations in the Library, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Padma Lakshmi reads In Pursuit of English by Dorris Lessing
Padma Lakshmi reads In Pursuit of English by Dorris Lessing at the event An Evening Without..., part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
Nell Freudenberger, Don Delillo, David Cole, Art Spiegelman, Eve Ensler, George Saunders, Jonathan Ames, A.M. Homes, Jack Rice, Amrit Singh, Mathew Alexander, Paul Auster, Susanna Moore, and Ishmael Beah… More
The Global City: Entire Event
Readings and a discussion with Alaa Al-Aswany, Paulo Lins, Melania Mazzucco, Carlos Monsiváis, and Orhan Pamuk at the 2006 PEN event The Global City, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More