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Tribes features PEN tributes to Langston Hughes and Yukio Mishima and features writing by authors such as Edward Said, Denis Johnson, Seamus Heaney, Sandra Cisneros, C. D. Wright, Tony Kushner, and Sherman Alexie. PEN members discuss their literary tribes.



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