Audio + Video

Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie discuss transcultural migration, Indian verbosity, the recent or not-so-recent invention of Indian identity, freedom's economic components, class similarities in the victims of Hindu/Muslim violence,… More

With Mark Danner, Kanan Makiya, Dunya Mikhail, and Pankaj Mishral; moderated by Robert Silvers.The 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq by a U.S.-led coalition polarized opinion in this… More

Zadie Smith and Kurt Andersen discuss conceptions of the true world, post-White Teeth guilt and Protestant worry, the benefits of self-reinvention, dead white males, and a defense of gangsta… More

Zadie Smith reads at the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Chico Buarque and Paul Auster take part in a conversation at the New York Public Library during the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Riikka Pulkkinen reads in conjunction with Distorting (A Messiah Project, 13C), an art installation created by R. Justin Stewart and curated by Risa Shoup at The Invisible Dog Art… More

United Nations Side-session Panel Discussion with Dr. Agnes Callamard, director, ARTICLE 19 (UK), Professor Tariq Ramadan (Switzerland), Mr. Budhy M. Rahman, program officer, The Asia Foundation (Indonesia); Moderated by… More

PEN's venerable Freedom to Write Program, which has fought for and won the release of hundreds of writers imprisoned for their work around the world, turns 50 this year.… More

Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, Ariel Dorfman, Azar Nafisi, and Kwame Anthony Appiah express their views on religious defamation and free speech in a video statement. More

Teju Cole reads in conjunction with Distorting (A Messiah Project, 13C), an art installation created by R. Justin Stewart and curated by Risa Shoup at The Invisible Dog Art… More