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On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons with Torture
[caption id="attachment_12717" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Sketch of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin"][/caption] On this weekend's Moyers & Company (check local listings), PEN American Center's Larry Siems, author of… More
Poetry Roundup: Banker’s Dozen
For those of you who haven’t already heard, the poet Joshua Clover and 11 University of California Davis students are being “threatened with 11 years each in jail and… More
On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons with Torture
On this weekend’s Moyers & Company (check local listings), PEN American Center’s Larry Siems, author of The Torture Report, and director Doug Liman, whose credits include The Bourne Identity,… More
PEN Heading to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court announced today that it will consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU—a list that includes PEN American Center, Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, The Nation, and… More
PEN Heading to Supreme Court
[caption id="attachment_12462" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="U.S. Supreme Court, photo by Matt H. Wade via WikiCommons"][/caption] The Supreme Court announced today that it will consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU—a list… More
PEN Appeal: Marco Antonio ?vila Garcia
May 21, 2012 President Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, DISTRITO FEDERAL, México Fax: (+… More
PEN Appeal: René Orta Salgado
May 21, 2012 President Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, DISTRITO FEDERAL, México Fax: (+… More
2010 PEN Translation Fund Recipient Daniel Brunet Presents Dea Loherƒ??s Bluebeard
Daniel Brunet received a PEN Translation Fund Award in 2010 to support his translation of Dea Loher’s play The Last Fire. He has continued to translate Loher’s work, and… More
Julian Sanchez: On Fiction and Surveillance
"When we talk about surveillance and privacy—perhaps more than any other political question—we speak a language borrowed from fiction." More
Julian Sanchez: On Fiction and Surveillance
[caption id="attachment_11940" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Julian Sanchez © Susan Morgan/PEN American Center"][/caption] At this year's PEN World Voices Festival, the panel Life in the Panopticon: Thoughts on Freedom in an Era… More
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