Max Porter on Peace.
Please follow this link and watch Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers, deliver his moving 2026 PEN speech. If you don't want to watch the video, a link to the transcript is below the image. But I do, really, recommend hearing it from Max himself.
"Might we re-child our ideas of solidarity, of community, of survival — weren’t all utopias deemed childish compared to the big, grown-up work of bombing the fuck out of stuff, and Hurting People? Just because we are centuries deep into a violent way of doing business with the planet and one another, does it mean we cannot brainstorm some alternatives?"
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