Audio + Video
Global Food: Over the Edge (audio)
Global food has never been the subject of more fierce debates than today. Who should feed the world—agribusiness or small farmers? What will seven billion hungry mouths eat—biotech crops… More
Writing War (audio)
The literature of war has ancient roots, but it’s still vital: as long as war exists we will write about it. War is one of the most profound experiences… More
Sebastian Barry reads from The Temporary Gentleman
Highly acclaimed author Sebastian Barry reads from his new book,The Temporary Gentleman, a novel written from the perspective of Jack McNulty, an Irishman who lived through a great war… More
Obsession: Masha Gessen on Citizen-Victims
Sometimes a thought just won't go away. For Masha Gessen, the unrelenting thought is this: Those who live in a totalitarian state are like victims of abuse. The acclaimed… More
Literature of the Great War
How did the literature of World War I express the horrors of war? How did it react against those horrors? Join this distinguished group of writers and critics as… More
Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué: 33 RPM and a Few Seconds Q&A
Known for their experimental and controversial works, acclaimed Lebanese theater artists Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh reconstruct the final moments of a person's life. A young Lebanese man takes… More
In Conversation: Osama Alomar and Lydia Davis with Sjón
In Chicago, Osama Alomar is a cab driver. In his home town of Damascus, he is an accomplished poet. Now, after years of living in obscurity, his flame has… More
Balkan Literature: Edge of Accord
The Festival brings together leading writers from the intricately diverse countries of the Balkan Peninsula—Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro—to examine the ways in which the region, and its artists,… More
Workshop—Tracy K. Smith: The Weight of Objects
Award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith leads a conversation on the role of the image in contemporary poetry, examining how poems use sensory details to distort and enlarge our conventional… More
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