PEN Portraits

Translator Gregory Rabassa and his former student and translator Ronald Christ ponder the question: Is the translator a traitor?

The author Madeleine L'Engle and Dr. Barry Wood (Internist at Roosevelt Hospital) discuss the question: Can we face death? This episode of P.E.N. Portraits on WNYC is hosted by Anne F...

Francis Steegmuller and Dr. Lola Szladits discuss the role of the editor and the curator in the care of large bodies of literary papers and archives.

Professor Gerald Sykes talks about interdisciplinary studies and the relationship between the interdisciplinary arts and sciences

German writer Uwe Johnson and long time contributor to the New Yorker magazine Brendan Gill talk about New York City.

Journalists Ted Morgan and Peter Strafford discuss the topic of "Monstrous and Murderous Children."

The writers Charles L. Mee Jr. and James Chace consider the questions: Who runs the world? Who rules the world? And who ruins the world? Anne Fremantle is host of the program.

Australian novelists Shirley Hazzard and Thomas Keneally on today's Australian novel.

The poets Muriel Rukeyser and Ernesto Cardenal consider the question: How and why should the Artist be committed?

Dr. Paul Horgan and Robin Prising discuss diverse tongues that make up one people.

Elizabeth Hardwick and Elizabeth Spencer discuss the relationship of geography to genius. Is just chance that the South has produced such wonderful writers?

Emily Hahn and Norman Cousins discuss the question the question: Do men and women approach ultimate reality differently?

Media historian Erik Barnouw and filmmaker Peter Davis discuss film censorship and whether it is getting better or worse.

Alice Denham and Amaury de Riencourt discuss the question of whether sexual discrimination has helped or hindered humanity?

Jill Robinson and John Lahr on mommy and daddy dearest.