PEN America

‘A kind of gorging, gulping, transporting experience of being lifted out of my life: That’s what I’m looking for as a reader, and that’s what I hope to provide as a writer’

The former secretary of state spoke with author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the PEN World Voices Festival

Colson Whitehead, Leïla Slimani, Adam Gopnik, and Maxine Beneba Clarke are among the writers who spoke

The actor is in town to discuss stepping away from the camera and picking up his pen

This year some 165 writers representing more than fifty nationalities are scheduled to participate

The art world’s man of mystery bombed the Bowery to protest the imprisonment of Turkish artist Zehra Doğan