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Egypt: Like a Facebook Post, Go to Jail
As the world marks a year since the arrest of three Al Jazeera journalists, an unprecedented wave of persecution is sharply delimiting the bounds of free speech in Egypt.… More
Manhattan Tropics
Manhattan Tropics is the first novel of the Puerto Rican mass-migration to New York City, offering a panorama of mid-century life in El Barrio. Maney's translation deftly captures the… More
Ministers, Gossips, and Communists: On Translating Guillermo Cotto-Thorner
"I decided to translate Manhattan Tropics when I came to grasp its significance as a historical and artistic document; as the first novel of the mid-century Puerto Rican diaspora… More
January Hearing May End James Risen’s Ordeal—or Not
On January 5, New York Times reporter James Risen and his attorney may reach an agreement with the Justice Department that would see him testify in the case without… More
India: BJP Party and RSS Harass Tamil Novelist Perumal Murugan
Earlier this month, Hindu organizations in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu launched a campaign against writer and professor Perumal Murugan, culminating in the burning of copies of his… More
V. 2015: Submission of an Alternate Slate
For regulations governing submission of an alternate slate, the by-laws, Article IV, Section 5, state:“[In] accordance with a regular calendar and procedure adopted by the Board, any PEN member… More
IV. 2015: Procedure for Elections
1.) The Nominating Committee will propose to the membership a slate of candidates for 2015 by email.* Members will have approximately six weeks in which to consider the slate. During… More
II. 2015: Biographies of Candidates to be Elected or Reelected to the Board of Trustees
OFFICER CANDIDATES For President: Andrew SolomonNon-Fiction Author Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology, and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University.Solomon's newest book, Far… More
Chistopol Notebook
Though Tarkovsky is one of Russia's greatest poets of the twentieth century—on the ranks with Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodsky—he remains little-known in the West. Philip Metres's and Dimitri Psurtsev's… More
The Language of King David: On Translating Arseny Tarkovsky
"In his poetic and spiritual freedom, Tarkovsky outlasted the slag and dross of totalitarianism. His poetry is the internal cinema of the Soviet era, an unscrolling testimony of the… More
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