Evolution/Revolution
With Muriel Barbery, Nicole Brossard, Narcís Comadira, Jose Dalisay, Edwidge Danticat, Péter Nádas, Sergio Ramírez, Salman Rushdie, and Raja Shehadeh


The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi
With Nawal El Saadawi and Kwame Anthony Appiah


The Inspired Scientist
With Majora Carter, Tijs Goldschmidt, Kimiko Hahn, Sandeep Jauhar, and Harriet A. Washington; moderated by Robert Krulwich


Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
In conversation with Adam Gopnik



The Economic Crisis and How to Deal With It
With Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, Robin Wells, and Jeff Madrick


Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
Introduction by Larry Siems, with Ken Wiwa, Richard North Patterson, with a reading by Steve Connell and Sekou; moderated by Okey Ndibe


Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le




Neil Gaiman
In conversation with Festival director Caro Llewellyn



Town Hall Readings: Writing Home
With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef


The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
With David Grossman and Nadine Gordimer  


Words Under Confinement:
Prison Writing as Political Act
With Breyten Breytenbach, Massimo Carlotto, Kathleen Cleaver, Susan Rosenberg, and Drake Stutesman


Faith & Reason: Writers Speak
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

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
With Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie
 

Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature
With Bei Dao, Robert Faggen, Durs Grünbein, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, Eva Hoffman, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Azar Nafisi, Tomas Venclova, and Adam Zagajewski, and Lawrence Weschler


Africa and the World:The Writer’s Role
With Elizabeth Alexander, Breyten Breytenbach, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Achmat Dangor, Nuruddin Farah, Zakes Mda, Pedro Rosa Mendes, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Uwe Timm

Neil Gaiman & Caro Llewellyn

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio & Adam Gopnik

Muriel Barbery & Adam Gopnik

Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti

Jeffery Sachs: Common Wealth

Richard Ford & Nam Le

Mark Z. Danielewski & Rick Moody

The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry & Roxanne Coady

Evolution/Revolution

Resonances: Writers on the Great Works

Poetry Reading

Readings From Around the Globe

Global Voices

Anagrama: Celebrating 40 Years of Independent Publishing in Spain

The Economic Crisis & How to Deal With It

The Inspired Scientist: A Program for High School Students

Orange Groves, Olives, and The Last Fish Tale

Season of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih

Faith & Fiction

This Critical Moment!

East–West Storytelling

Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa

Reinaldo Arenas & Blai Bonet: A Tribute

Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity

DEFIANCE: The Spirit of '89

Green Thoughts: Writers on the Environment

History and the Truth of Fiction

Postcolonial Writing in a Globalized World

Youth on the Frontlines: A Program for High School Students

Words Under Confinement: Prison Writing as Political Act

An Evening with The Moth

Gritty Realism

Conversation: Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng

Conversation: Kiran Desai & Vikram Chandra, with Rachel Donadio

A Believer Nighttime Event

Voyage and Voyeur: Travel and Travel Writing

Mixing Art and Politics

A Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with David Grossman

Conversation: Alain Mabanckou & Dany Laferrière, with Anderson Tepper

Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage

Town Hall Readings: Writing Home

Multiple Passports: Writers on Homeland and Identity

Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal Wake

Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Marguerite Abouet, with Sean Wilsey

Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping, and Rendition

A Tribute to César Vallejo

Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones

Words Without Borders: Every Day in Africa

Conversation: Guillermo Arriaga & Paul Auster

Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah, with Radhika Jones

Voices From Today’s Iran

Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror: Carolin Emcke & Mark Danner

The PEN Cabaret

Sex and Danger

Reading: Author to Author

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with Orhan Pamuk

Conversations in the Library:
Duong Thu Huong with Robert Stone & Antoine Audouard

A Believer Nighttime Event

BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Etgar Keret & George Saunders

BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Helen Oyeyemi & Esmeralda Santiago

BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Melania G. Mazzucco with Jhumpa Lahiri

BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Rodrigo Fresán & Jonathan Lethem

Conversations in the Library:
Amartya Sen & Salman Rushdie

Conversations in the Library:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Philip Gourevitch

An Evening Without . . .

Exiles in America

Faith & Reason: Writers Speak

The Global City

Honor Killings: When Families Commit Murder to Save Face

Hwang Sok Yong & Ko Un

Idols & Insults: Writing, Religion, and Freedom of Expression

Just the Facts: Truth & the Internet

Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages

Patrick McGrath & Martin Amis

Revolution: A User's Manual

Tell That Story Again: Writing Myth Now

Women Poets from the Middle East

Writing Faith

Africa and the World: The Writer’s Role

Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe

Crossing Borders: Universal Themes in Children's Literature

Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature

Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute

International Noir

Literature & Power

Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?