The English version, with the calendars redrawn.
Do We Have a Responsibility?
A discussion of the extent to which adults should protect children and teens against potentially disturbing or culturally problematic content in books.
Against Monoculture
With the cancellation of two YA novels already this year, the PEN America annual meeting and panel discussion moderated by PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the topic "Writing Wrongs:…
I Take My Turn for Translation
Announcing my new position as co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee.
The panelists, from left, Masha Gessen, Max Book, Ian Buruma, and moderator Chip Rawley.
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “It Can’t Happen Here”
A closing panel of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival addresses the question: could (or has) an authoritarian regime come to power in the United States?
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “What Shall We Tell the Children?”
The contributors to an upcoming volume of poetry, essays, and art on resistance offer advice to parents on talking to children in challenging times.
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like”
A PEN World Voices panel on writing and democracy that highlighted the myth of meritocracy and the self-made man, and need for more inclusive media and stories.
I Meet Edmund White
Earlier this week I attended PEN America's 2018 Literary Awards Gala, invited because I served as a judge for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship this year, evaluating children's and…
Why We Need Historical Fiction
In the past two weeks, I've spoken at two events about my novel Gringolandia and my translation of the picture book Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World) --…
The Time Has Come for Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World)
Release day for the Amnesty International co-sponsored Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World), a picture book of a refugee family in their new home.
Banned Books Week 2017: Authors on the Front Lines
Authors and editors of books for young people discuss different forms of censorship and how to defend diverse books in a panel organized by PEN America.