November 13, 2013

In a study conducted by PEN American Center and the FDR Group last month, 528 PEN members were asked whether they avoid controversial topics in their work out of fear… Read more »

Arts & Culture

York school crowdfunds for 'magical' reading cottage — Tom Clayton
Big Ben goes belly-up in book-based building bonanza — Tom Clayton
Plymouth's RESPECT festival will see people become 'books' for Human Library — Tom Clayton
Simon Armitage begins decade-long UK library tour — Tom Clayton

How to cure us: the medical demons and demonic medicine of Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov

Josh Billings

Like most men of science, Serge Voronoff was a romantic. His dream was simple: to prove the viability of cross-species tissue grafts—or, in layman’s terms, to replace the past-their-prime testicles… Read more »

“Malcolm, uninterrupted”: the controversy over Malcolm X’s 1964 diary

Sal Robinson

If all goes to plan, this Thursday, the small publishing house Third World Press will publish a unique and fascinating book: Malcolm X’s diary from 1964, the last year of… Read more »

Pink Floyd frontman honors veteran with a poem

Julia Fleischaker

“My father, distant now but live and warm and strong / In uniform tobacco haze.” Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has never shied away from writing about the pain of… Read more »

Poets and writers pay tribute to Seamus Heaney

Claire Kelley

Irish and American writers gathered to read their favorite Seamus Heaney poems for an overflowing audience in Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Monday night. Heaney’s wife Marie and son Michael… Read more »

Melville House Books

Writers are censoring themselves for fear of the NSA, PEN study finds

Kirsten Reach