 Christopher Hitchens: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
Christopher Hitchens speaks on “Crucibles: Past and Present” followed by a conversation with Salman Rushdie.
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 Readings From Around the Globe: Opening Night Extravaganza
With Mohsin Hamid, Yiyun Li, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Sofi Oksanen, Atiq Rahimi, Salman Rushdie, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Patti Smith, Andrzej Stasiuk,and Miguel Syjuco
The sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival opens with an extraordinary lineup of internationally acclaimed writers from around the world.
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 Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
The authors talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions along the way: the visual arts, literature (of course), and their love for the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.
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 New European Fiction
With Naja Marie Aidt, Aleksandar Hemon, valter hugo mãe, Colum McCann, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Aleksandar Hemon speaks with Colum McCann and three contributors to the inaugural volume of Best European Fiction about the current state of fiction in Europe and what it has to offer American and world readers.
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 Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison talks with her South African colleague Marlene van Niekerk about politics, language, literature, and more.
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 The Great Fire—Shirley Hazzard in Conversation with Richard Ford
Two modern-day masters meet to discuss the grand themes—“time, love, the coming around of inexorable events.”
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 Weather Report: What Can We Do?
With Jostein Gaarder, James Hansen, Frederic Hauge, Bjørn Lomborg, Bill McKibben, Andrew Revkin, and Cynthia Rosenzweig; moderated by Robert Silvers
Some of the premier scientists and writers from the U.S. and Scandinavia gather to discuss how we can turn back the tides of global warming.
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 Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible
With Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk; moderated by Albert Mobilio
Writers from Russia, the U.S., Israel, and Poland consider the question of whether the novel—in this ironic age—still give voice to such strong feelings about societies.
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 Face-to-Face—Confronting the Torturers: A PEN Freedom to Write Event
With Alina Bronsky, Rodrigo Fresán, Mohsin Hamid, Aleksandar Hemon, Randa Jarrar, Irakli Kakabadze, Elias Khoury, valter hugo mãe, and Sofi Oksanen
The readers draw upon documentary and imaginative literature from around the world, in which people have stood face-to-face with their torturers.
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 Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics
With Aleksandar Hemon, Major Jackson, Yiyun Li, Marcel Möring, and Martin Solares; moderated by Esther Allen
Each of the participants select a classic work and discuss its resonance within his or her own life and work.
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 Iran: A Conversation with Maziar Bahari and The Daily Show’s Jason Jones
Maziar Bahari and Jason Jones reunite to talk about this tumultuous year in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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 Face Off! Overcoming Barriers
With David Almond, Alina Bronsky, Janne Teller, and Tommy Wieringa; moderated by Matt de la Peña
Four acclaimed authors from the U.K., Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands discuss how their characters face down obstacles, both internal and external, and what their work means to their own lives. |
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