When Women KillNovelist Alia Trabucco Zern has long been fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women, but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the troubling tales of the

who died in Paris

From Syrian author and poet Maher Sharafeddine comes an excerpt from his debut novel

He has written catalogue essays on contemporary Indian art

It is an invitation to resist 'busyness'

His proposal for ‘alternating’ government at the national level is both novel and provocative

An iron-willed mother

talks about the magazine and how PEN is working for greater connections with the Arab world

The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies – loved

Night journey

A delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity

it is not afraid to mourn the loss of value and meaning

As MacNeice said