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Rian Malan on growing up in South Africa

Annie Proulx performs "A Yard of Cloth"

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Soap and Ambergris
by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

I live in a small, single-story house in Al-Atayef Quarter. My husband didn’t leave me anything, apart from a mud house that shakes when the thunder crashes and the rain pours. [More]

The Night
by Jaime Saenz; translated by Gander and Johnson

Over the years, all your furniture and possessions wear down and fine away. / Many things disappear on break, while others meet odd fates, as if they were human. . . . [More]

The Public-Toilet Manager
by Liao Yiwu; translated by Wen Huang

Many professors and scholars were labeled counterrevolutionaries and yes, they were assigned to clean toilets. I wanted to work, but the students in Mao’s Red Guard wouldn’t allow it. . . . [More]

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BERJAYAWe'll Miss the Playwright Who Fought Oppression with Words

As we mourn the passing of one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, let's not forget that the field of human rights has also lost a great defender of freedom of expression. [More]

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The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film FeastTown Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives
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Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State

With György Dragomán, Asli Erdogan, Péter Esterházy, Chenjerai Hove, Irakli Kakabadze, and more

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