Friday, May 1

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12:30 p.m.
Garden Readings

With Laila Lalami, Morten Ramsland, and Peter Weber [event details]

1 p.m.
Macondo: Imaginary and Real

With László Garaczi, Geert Mak, Santiago Roncagliolo, and Josep-Maria Terricabras; moderated by Anderson Tepper [event details]

1 p.m.
The Best of Contemporary
Mexican Fiction

With Dick Cluster, Álvaro Enrigue, Guillermo Fadanelli, and Olivia Sears; moderated by Martin Riker [event details]

1 p.m.
Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen

With Nadeem Aslam, Norbert Gstrein, Mariken Jongman, Khet Mar, and Domenico Starnone [event details]

3 p.m.
What’s Taboo?

With Salwa Al Neimi, Zsófia Bán, Nicole Brossard, and Rakesh Satyal; moderated by Vitoria Redel [event details]

3 p.m.
This Critical Moment!

With Eric Banks, Rigoberto González, Laila Lalami, and Kevin Prufer; moderated by Jane Ciabattari [event details]

5 p.m.
Discovering Unbearable Truths

With Uwe Kolbe and Uljana Wolf; moderated by Susan Bernofsky [event details]

6 p.m.
Season of Migration to the North:
The Work of Tayeb Salih

With Elias Khoury, Laila Lalami, Bruce Robbins, and Raja Shehadeh [event details]

6 p.m.
The Language of Fear:
A PEN Journal Event

With Guillermo Fadanelli, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jeffrey Lependorf, Colum McCann, Kathrin Röggla, and Anya Ulinich; moderated by David Haglund [event details]

6 p.m.
Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda

6 p.m.
On the Edge: Writing in
Post-Reunified Germany

With Clemens Meyer and Antje Rávic Strubel [event details]

6:30 p.m.
Four/Négy

With Eszter Babarczy, Zsófia Bán, László Garaczi, and János Térey [event details]

7 p.m.
Poetry Reading

With Nicole Brossard, Narcís Comadira, Wayne Koestenbaum, Uwe Kolbe, Fuad Rifka, and János Térey [event details]

7:30 p.m.
Readings from Around the Globe

With Bernardo Atxaga, Petina Gappah, Mariken Jongman, Michael Ondaatje, Daniel Sada, Hwang Sok-Yong, Antonio Tabucchi, and Colm Tóibín [event details]

8 p.m.
Armin Petras: We Are Camera


9 p.m.
The Translation Slam

With Javier Calvo, Narcís Comadira, Nick Laird, Valerie Meyer, Michael F. Moore, Mary Ann Newman, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips [event details]