Audio + Video
Roxane Gay on Diversity in Publishing
In anticipation of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival, today we share a clip from the 2016 festival in which Hunger author Roxane Gay discusses issues of diversity in… More
Dareen Tatour Reads “A Poet’s Hallucinations”
Loneliness came in, taking me by surprise / Without knocking on my door / Like an impolite guest. / It sat at my desk / Picked up my pen… More
The M Word Stories: Safia Elhillo
I choose to be unapologetically Muslim, because I’m tired and bored of apologizing for things that I already am. And so, why stop? More
It Can Happen Here: Free Expression in America
Narrated by Hanya Yanagihara More
The M Word Stories: Rebecca Hankins
It’s been my goal to make people understand that Islam is extremely vast and diverse and, especially as an African-American Muslim woman, that our representation is important and that… More
The M Word Stories: Hussein Rashid
In America, people are always finding ways to try to silence things they don’t understand. Right now, it’s religion; before, it was race. More
Wajahat Ali Interviews Timothy Snyder for Read the Resistance, August 2017
If things don’t go well, there are going to be considerable risks later…while the risks are limited, people have to get out and practice being a little courageous. More
“We Have Not Lived Through the Peak of Our Hardships”: An Interview with Andrey Kurkov
Nowadays, 80 percent of young authors write politically engaged literature, trying to touch upon very painful topics, the topics of refugees, immigrants, the topic of responsibility for the future... More
The M Word Stories: Bayan Abubakr
The number one weirdest question I get is do I shower with my hijab, and that's obviously reflective of the fact that I'm both Muslim and a woman. More
Chinua Achebe: “The Day I Finally Met Baldwin”
You should have seen his severe countenance crumble instantly into boyish happiness…With typical hyperbole, Baldwin called me his buddy, a brother he had not seen in 400 years. More
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