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PEN American Center’s second “State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings” event called “Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention and Extraordinary Rendition” was presented in oppositio…

Salman Rushdie read from his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown: A Novel, published by Random House. Following the reading, Leonard Lopate talked to Mr. Rushdie about his work and the curren…

Authors Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Ha Jin, Shah Sa, Jonathan Franzen and others read from works that convey the political influence of the written word.