The Berggruen Prize
Siri was happy to accept an invitation to join the jury for the Berggruen Prize.
NPR Book Review
Sharmila Mukherjee reviews Siri's latest book for NPR.
A hundred intellectuals from around the world demand that Putin release Navalni
Siri Hustvedt adds her voice to 99 others in an open letter to President Putin demanding the release of Alexei Navalni.
Writers Against Trump
Writers Against Trump formed to mobilize the literary community in opposition to “the racist, destructive, incompetent, corrupt, and fascist regime of Donald Trump, and to give our language, thought, and time to his defeat in November.”
What is Essential? And Who?
What the World Values When It's Falling Apart.
On Old Statues, Bad Science, and Ideas That Just Won’t Die
Monuments often lie. Political elites erect them in the name of one sanctioned collective narrative or another, and they come down by violence or by decree as historical winds shift.
On coronavirus, death tolls and the dangerous rhetoric of Donald Trump
Every alarm signals a person in crisis, and that person’s fate is inevitably bound to the fates of others — family and friends. It is a noise that deserves moral attention.
"Separate and Secluded" We Pass Our Days.
Reading is an intimate encounter that does not require social distance. In our current world of restricted movement, the book is a geography where complete freedom remains possible.
Le Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon
Watch Siri's address as she accepts the Charles Veillon European Essay Prize for Delusions of Certainty.
Town Hall Seattle
Watch Siri Hustvedt in conversation with journalist Lauren Du Graf about Siri's latest novel, Memories of the Future.
Memories of the Future review in The Guardian
A novelist looks back at her younger self in 1970s New York in this smart investigation of misogyny, authority and the nature of fiction.
Memories of the Future review in the Washington Post
Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt. Her sentences dance with the elation of a brilliant intellect romping through a playground of ideas, and her prose is just as lively when engaged in the development of characters and story.
PEN America Calls for Independent Investigation into Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance and Apparent Murder
Siri Hustvedt joins her colleagues at PEN America and the Authors Guild to call on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to authorize an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Concentration Camps for Kids: An Open Letter
In the New York Review of Books, dozens of authors signed an open letter denouncing the Trump administration’s tent facility for detaining migrant children separated from their parents in Tornillo, Texas, and the thousands of other migrant children being held.
