PEN America 9: Checkpoints showcases new work by writers from all over the world examining the literal and metaphorical barriers that scar the globe—with fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama from China, Cuba, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. Plus conversations with Ian McEwan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, and much more.

Writing from PEN America 9 will appear this fall in Best American Essays and next year in the Pushcart Prize anthology. Order your copy today.