featured new streams of programming: one, American Voices, focused on American writers addressing the complex and polarizing issues in the US; another, Next Generation Now, aimed to nurture young people as agents of change. Festival participants included celebrated figures such as Laurie Anderson, Paul Auster, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jelani Cobb, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Roxane Gay, Xiaolu Guo, Siri Hustvedt, Ryszard Krynicki, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Dag Solstad, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Colm Tóibín, Colson Whitehead, and many others. The concluding lecture was delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who then engaged in conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Selected 2018 Programs Resist and Reimagine: Opening Night Dave Eggers and Mokhtar Alkanshali: Good to the Last Drop No Country for Young Muslim Women Playing with Fire Us Too Cry, the Beloved Country Where Do We Go from Here? Borders of our Imagination Laurie Anderson and Chelsea Manning on Art, Technology, and Activism An Evening with Roxane Gay Unlived Lives Kexaptun: Poetry in New York’s Newest and Oldest Languages The Trick of Translation Reflections on Violence Handmaid in America Liminal States After the Storm: Puerto Rico, Poetry and Resistance Still, They Persisted New York Stories Life During Wartime It Can’t Happen Here America Real and Imagined The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Hillary Rodham Clinton with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The M Word: Hasan Minhaj and Wajahat Ali References External links PEN America PEN World Voices Festival PEN World Voices Festival 2018 Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close, New York Times Blog (May 7, 2012) PEN World Voices 2006 Media Library PEN World Voices 2005 Media Library PEN Podcasts Bill Moyers' Faith & Reason series Interviews & blog from the Wild River Review Culture of New York City Literary festivals in the United States