Schedule of Events

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture:
Orhan Pamuk, introduced by Salman Rushdie

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Conversation: Jorge Semprún & Norman Manea

Writing Faith

Honor Killings: When Families Commit Murder to Save Face

Translation in South Asia

Faith and Politics in America and Elsewhere

Conversation: Lydie Salvayre & Rick Moody

A Tribute to Juan Rulfo

Young Writers Series:
Melania G. Mazzucco & Jhumpa Lahiri

Faith & Reason: Writers Speak

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Raymond Federman: Reading from Retour au fumier

Tell That Story Again: Writing Myth Now

Exiles in America

Conversation: Martin Amis & Patrick McGrath

Translation and Globalization

Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages

Young Writers Series:
Helen Oyeyemi & Esmeralda Santiago

Conversation & Reading: Archipelagos of Poetry & Politics

Reading: Felicitas Hoppe and Elizabeth Gaffney; conversation with Ayesha Pande

An Evening Without…

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Reading: Chris Abani, Rodrigo Fresán, Yiyun Li, Frederic Tuten

Globalization, Fundamentalism & Women

Just the Facts: Truth & the Internet

The Limits of Tolerance? Multiculturalism Now

Young Writers Series:
Etgar Keret & George Saunders

Taking Crime Fiction Seriously

51%: Women Write the World, a Panel Discussion

The Radical Loser: A Public Interview with Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Conversation: Chris Abani & Colm Tóibín

Revolution: A User’s Manual

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Young Writers Series:
Rodrigo Fresán & Jonathan Lethem

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

Conversation: Lyubomir Levchev & Bob Holman

Whose News?: A Global Perspective on What Makes News and Why

Discovering Roberto Bolaño

Reading: Read Globally, Listen Locally

Women Poets From the Middle East

The Global City

Young Writers Series:
Azhar Abidi & Monique Truong

Conversation: Hwang Sok-Yong & Ko Un; moderated by Janet Poole

A Believer Nighttime Event

Dual Citizenship

HOWL for 50 Years

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

Reading: Author to Author

Conversations in the Library:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Philip Gourevitch

Ready to Write: Young Authors on Inspiration, Mentors, and Finding a Creative Path

Conversation: Henning Mankell & Vera B. Williams

Conversation: Hanna Jansen & Tonya Bolden

Conversation: Paulo Lins & Antonio Skármeta

Conversations in the Library:
Zadie Smith & Kurt Andersen

Discussion & Workshops: Sharing the Spark

Suitable for Children

Conversations in the Library:
Amartya Sen & Salman Rushdie
 
A Conversation with David Grossman

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