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Mohsin Hamid reads "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written" by Margaret Atwood at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Lawrence Weschler reads from his book A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Irakli Kakabadze reads "Solo Conversation of a Death Squad Member" by Vano Akhalaia at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Elias Khoury reads from his novel Yalo at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Aleksandar Hemon reads from A Tomb For Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

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Lasha Bugadze (Georgia), Laila Soliman (Egypt), Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Iran), and the Civilians (New York) have all tried to turn street-level protest into art. Did they succeed? Moderator Mike Daisey,… More

Civilians (New York) have all tried to turn street-level protest into art. Did they succeed? Moderator Mike Daisey, the monologist whose The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs… More

April 27, 2011 | Scandinavia House | New York City With Nadine Bismuth, Nicolas Dickner, Dominique Fortier, Mykola Riabchuk, and Teresa Solana; moderated by Susan Harris Co-sponsored by Words Without Borders,… More

April 29, 2011 | Bowery Poetry Club | New York City With Amélie Nothomb, Jolie Hale, Richard Sieburth, Waqas Khwaja , Adeeba Talukder, and Famida Riaz; moderated by Michael F.… More