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PEN vs. Sword
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From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations. ayad akhtar: The gravity of this moment is…

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No News Is Bad News
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From “Journalism and Literature,” an essay that appears for the first time in English in the collection Old Truths and New Clichés, which will be published next month by Princeton…

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The Witchcraft We Need
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Adapted from the essay “Histories, I,” included in the collection In the Margins, which will be published this month by Europa. Translated from the Italian. Anyone with literary ambitions knows…

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A Complicating Energy
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I never knew I needed you: the detrimental effects of isolation and the importance of strangers

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A Complicating Energy
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Notes on a year without strangers

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Traduttore, Traditore!
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From an email conversation between Mikaël Gómez Guthart and Ariana Harwicz after meeting at a book launch for their works in Paris last year. The discussion was published in the…

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These Precious Days
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Tell me how the story ends

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Making Meaning
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Against “relevance” in art

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Making Meaning
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You may know what you want, but you may not know what you need

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The Lives of Others
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When does imagination become appropriation?

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White Light/White Heat
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From “Burn the Diaries,” an essay in the collection Index Cards, which will be published this month by New Directions. blankness In a volume of interviews, Jean Genet reconstructs the…

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