Here & Elsewhere
by Raymond Federman

I cannot write I cannot write
when I want to, when I need to. . . . . [More]


The New Religion
by Chris Abani

The body is a nation I have not known. . . . [More]



Faith & Reason
by Moses Isegawa

When I was 15, I decided to become a writer. I had fallen in love with books at six and I believed it was enough to catapult me into a dream world inhabited by the gods of the letters.  . . . [More]


The Cat Is Drinking Water From My Glass
For Toma Markov
by Lyubomir Levchev

I know it is a dream.
I know that now
I should move
my hand. . . . [More]


Forty Lives
by Navid Kermani

Moritz Pollesch has a friend called Albrecht, who claims he is going to kill his nine-year-old son within two to three years. . . . [More]



Conversation With Noah
by Anne Provoost

– If all those people must be flooded, is it not fair that they be warned?

– The calamity itself is the warning.

– Then your god is acting rashly. . . . [More]


In Jerusalem
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

There’s this bloody old stone
in the middle of the road.
Everybody wants to own it,
God knows why. . . . [More]


My Lamented Sister
by Etgar Keret

Nineteen years ago, in a small wedding hall in Bnei Brak, my older sister died, and she now lives in the most Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. I spent a recent weekend at her house. . . . [More]


Transmigration of Souls
by Agi Mishol

It's hard for you to believe in reincarnation
but you're willing to try,
considering the alternative. . . . [More]

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with Orhan Pamuk

April 25, 2006 | Cooper Union | New York City

With Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie

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Faith & Reason: Writers Speak

April 26, 2006 | The Town Hall | New York City

With Chinua Achebe, Martin Amis, Gioconda Belli, E. L. Doctorow, David Grossman, Elias Khoury, Yusef Komunyakaa, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Duong Thu Huong, Ayu Utami, Jeanette Winterson, and Salman Rushdie

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An Evening Without . . .

April 27, 2006 | The Bowery Poetry Club | New York City

With Anthony Romero, Martin Amis, Russell Banks, Liev Schreiber, Barbara Goldsmith, Salman Rushdie, Gioconda Belli, Padma Lakshmi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debra Winger, Eloy Urroz and Todd Solondz

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Revolution: A User's Manual

April 28, 2006 | The New York Public Library | New York City

With Adam Michnik, Gioconda Belli, G.M. Tamás, Balthasar Garzón, and Christopher Hitchens

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A Believer Nighttime Event

April 29, 2006 | The New School | New York City

With Rodrigo Fresán, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Helen Oyeyemi, Matthew Ritchie, Salman Rushdie, Dubravka Ugresic, and John Hodgman

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Conversations in the Library: Amartya Sen & Salman Rushdie

April 30, 2006 | The New York Public Library | New York City

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