In a piece entitled “Bringing the World Close,” the writer Robert Ito describes our recent gala and quotes executive director and publisher Karen Phillips on the power of reading:

Literature is a really powerful space for imagining new ways forward, or thinking through situations that are impossible if you take them head on as facts . . .

The article also notes that people attending the gala: “looked to the magazine’s future, which includes an ongoing expansion of Words Without Borders Campus” and gives some details on what that will mean.

Read more here: “Bringing the World Close. ”