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Literature and society

PEN vs. Sword

by Ayad Akhtar, Andrey Kurkov, Patrice Nganang, Salman Rushdie, Yiyun Li,

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…

In the Dark

by Aldous Huxley,

All over the world thousands upon thousands of men and women pass their whole lives denouncing, instructing, commanding, cajoling, imploring their fellows. With what results? One finds it rather hard…

Staying Awake

by Ursula K. Le Guin,

Notes on the alleged decline of reading

Ars longa, vita brevis

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Pushkin’s children

by Taty`ëiìana Tolstaëiìa,Translated by Jamey Gambrell,

American fiction and its reach

by Stanley Elkin,

Stalking the billion-footed beast

by Tom Wolfe,

A literary manifesto for the new social novel

Sacred truth, novelistic truths

by Carlos Fuentes,

Sartre: on Writing for One’s Age

by Jean Paul Sartre,

The shattered mirror

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Bits and pieces of experience

A Conspiracy of Silence

by Joseph Epstein,

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