These Truths
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Realizing a New Theatre with Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our final conversation, the acclaimed, genre-breaking Black playwrights Lynn Nottage and Jeremy O. Harris join forces for a compelling conversation...
Round and Round Together with Fatima Shaik, Amy Nathan, and Sharon Langley
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you explain segregation or the Movement for Black Lives to kids? In this conversation, Fatima Shaik speaks with co-authors Amy Nathan and Sharo...
Navigating Truths with Ishmael Beah and Alexis Okeowo
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Sierra Leonean-American author Ishmael Beah and New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo discuss how fiction can help us navigate s...
Prison & Justice Writing with Reginald Dwayne Betts
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we hear from poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and folks from PEN America’s Prison & Justice Writing Program about how literature...
Cry, The Beloved Country With Tatiana Voltskya, Tahir Hamut, and Burhan Sönmez
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, writers from across the globe, including Russian poet Tatiana Voltskaya with Russian writer and translator Elina Alter, Uyghur poet T...
Respecting the Silence with Fernanda Melchor and Yuri Herrera
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, writer and journalist Fernanda Melchor, author of the International Booker Prize shortlisted novel Hurricane Season, speaks with...
DREAMing Out Loud with Álvaro Enrigue
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Álvaro Enrigue, the founder of PEN’s DREAMing Out Loud Program, introduces us to the writing workshop he created to amplify t...
Ben Okri’s The Freedom Artist with Anderson Tepper
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and short story writer, Ben Okri speaks with Anderson Tepper, member of the editorial staff...
Fighting Words with Elif Shafak and John Freeman
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our first conversation, John Freeman, author and executive editor of Literary Hub, joins Turkish novelist and activist Elif Shafak to discuss how l...
Trailer: These Truths
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starting Wednesday, May 6 These Truths, a World Voices Podcast, brings the writers and artists of the 2020 PEN World Voices Festival right into your h...