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Our latest banned book update

PEN World Voices Festival Marks 20 Years

Cracks in the Facade: Lessons Learned From Florida’s Ongoing Censorship Campaign

The Power of Peer Support: Helping Journalists Persevere in the Face of Online Abuse

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Data Summary: The Last Two Years of Book Banning in the USA

Educational gag orders changed shape and their supporters have new strategies for silencing educators

Israel and Gaza

Focus RegionApril 3, 2024

PEN America statements, free expression resources, and stories of writers and artists from the Israel-Hamas war. More

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis

ReportApril 16, 2024

This report utilizes snapshots to illustrate the hateful rhetoric driving book bans and personal damage that this movement has done to students and communities alike. More

Featured Work

Israel and Gaza

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis

How Cognitive Biases Make Us Vulnerable to Disinformation – and What We Can Do about It

Book Bans

Campus Free Speech

Educational Censorship

Disinformation

Writers at Risk

Online Abuse

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis

Cracks in the Facade: Lessons Learned From Florida’s Ongoing Censorship Campaign

The Power of Peer Support: Helping Journalists Persevere in the Face of Online Abuse

Spineless Shelves: Two Years of Book Banning

The California Effect: How the Golden State is Driving the Progressive Agenda on Free Expression

The Florida Effect: How the Sunshine State is Driving the Conservative Agenda on Free Expression

America’s Censored Classrooms 2023: Lawmakers Shift Strategies as Resistance Rises

Reading Between the Bars

School Book Bans: The Mounting Pressure to Censor

Educational Intimidation Bills

Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and Language of Harm

Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression

Building Resilience: Identifying Community Solutions to Targeted Disinformation

Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools

Freedom to Write Index 2022

Translation Manifesto

Ukrainian Culture Under Attack: Erasure of Ukrainian Culture in Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing

Hate in the Headlines: Journalism & the Challenge of Extremism

Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools

America’s Censored Classrooms

Featured Work

Israel and Gaza

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis

Read the Latest

A Letter from the President of PEN America: American Authors Demand a Second Draft of PEN America, and the World in Which We Write

Salman Rushdie on His New Memoir: ‘I Had to Face This’

PEN World Voices Festival Marks Its 20th Year

Pham Doan Trang: A Courageous Voice for Change

Tony Kushner to Receive PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award at April 29 Literary Awards

Announcing the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists

PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of April 8

Twelve Emerging Writers To Receive PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize

Government-Mandated Neutrality Is Anything but Neutral

New Report Prescribes Peer Support to Help Journalists Targeted by Online Abuse

New PEN America Analysis Points to Cracks in Florida’s Censorship Campaign

How Cognitive Biases Make Us Vulnerable to Disinformation – and What We Can Do about It

Book Bans

Campus Free Speech

Educational Censorship

Disinformation

Writers at Risk

Online Abuse

Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis

Cracks in the Facade: Lessons Learned From Florida’s Ongoing Censorship Campaign

The Power of Peer Support: Helping Journalists Persevere in the Face of Online Abuse

Spineless Shelves: Two Years of Book Banning

The California Effect: How the Golden State is Driving the Progressive Agenda on Free Expression

The Florida Effect: How the Sunshine State is Driving the Conservative Agenda on Free Expression

America’s Censored Classrooms 2023: Lawmakers Shift Strategies as Resistance Rises

Reading Between the Bars

School Book Bans: The Mounting Pressure to Censor

Educational Intimidation Bills

Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and Language of Harm

Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression

Building Resilience: Identifying Community Solutions to Targeted Disinformation

Shouting into the Void: Why Reporting Abuse to Social Media Platforms Is So Hard and How to Fix It

Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools

Freedom to Write Index 2022

Translation Manifesto

Ukrainian Culture Under Attack: Erasure of Ukrainian Culture in Russia’s War Against Ukraine

Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing

Hate in the Headlines: Journalism & the Challenge of Extremism

Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools

America’s Censored Classrooms