Audio + Video
Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers: A PEN Freedom to Write Event
With Alina Bronsky, Rodrigo Fresán, Mohsin Hamid, Aleksandar Hemon, Randa Jarrar, Irakli Kakabadze, Elias Khoury, valter hugo mãe, Sofi Oksanen, Peter Schneider, and special guests More
Don DeLillo Reads from Mao II
Don DeLillo reads from Mao II at the 2011 PEN event "Viva the Belarus Free Theater" at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City. More
Mary Gaitskill Reads “Kitchen Workers” by Gail Leonard
Mary Gaitskill reads Gail Leonard's "Kitchen Workers," second place winner for fiction in PEN's 2007 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
Face Off! Overcoming Barriers
With David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy Wieringa; moderated by Matt de la Peña More
Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, and Margaret Colin Perform an Excerpt from “Laws of War”
Tom Stoppard, Billy Crudup, and Margaret Colin perform an excerpt from Laws of War at the 2011 PEN event "Viva the Belarus Free Theater" at Le Poisson Rouge in… More
An Around the World Reading
With Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Karl O. Knausgaard, Anne Landsman, Thomas Pletzinger, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa More
Mary Gaitskill Reads a Diary Entry by Beverly Jaynes
Mary Gaitskill reads a diary entry by Beverly Jaynes, a prisoner at WERDCC in Vandalia, Missouri, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
Reckoning with Torture: Live at Sundance
What's at stake when a government condones torture?From the frontlines of the war on terror comes a one-of-a-kind live event directed for the stage by Doug Liman. Exposed through… More
Liu Xia on Having Liu Xiaobo’s Papers Confiscated by Chinese Authorities
Liu Xia on having papers belonging to her husband, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, confiscated by the police in 2004. More
Reading Liu Xiaobo’s Greed’s Prisoner
Liu Xiaobo's wife, Liu Xia, and Victoria Redel read Greed's Prisoner (for the dispossessed wife), a poem written by Liu Xiaobo, recipient of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. More
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