Shaun Randol

Shaun Randol is the founder and editor of The Mantle. He is also an Associate Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, and a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the PEN American Center.

A Short Tale of Shame by Angel Igov

August 13, 2013 | Shaun Randol

A Short Tale of Shame Angel Igov tr. Angela Rodel Open Letter, 2013 A Short Tale of Shame is the first full-length novel from Bulgarian short-story writer and critic Angel Ig...
PEN 2013: The "African Writer"

May 7, 2013 | Shaun Randol

In my travels around the global literary scene, the question of a writerly identity has never seemed more precarious, conflicted, and urgent than with writers from Africa. More often...
PEN 2013: Critical Cold Wars

May 3, 2013 | Shaun Randol

"We have a Cold War on the Russian soul," said Mikhail Shishkin. Lines are drawn, barricades are up. On one side are the nationalists and isolationists who proclaim Russia...
PEN 2013: Bravery and Atrocity

April 30, 2013 | Shaun Randol

Bravery comes in many forms. As Salman Rushdie said to me in an interview, and confirmed at the opening night of PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the artist stan...