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PEN Cheers Release of The Interview
We commend Sony and independent theater owners for standing up to thuggery in defense of free expression. Their actions send a strong message that threats of violence will not… More
I. 2015: Slate of Candidates Offered by Nominating Committee
Officer Trustees President: Andrew Solomon Executive Vice-President/Treasurer: John TroubhVice-President: Annette Tapert Term Trustees (second 3-year terms) Jeri LaberJacob Weisberg Term Trustees (initial 3-year terms) Masha GessenBarbara GoldsmithTom HealyPaul MuldoonMichael PietschLaura Sillerman Please note:… More
Myanmar: Press Corps Move Insufficient
This week’s announcement that independent media will be invited to participate in a “press corps” that would be allowed access to the presidency and the right to cover public… More
Turkey: Sociologist Pınar Selek Acquitted For Fourth Time
Turkish sociologist, feminist, and writer Pınar Selek has been acquitted of all criminal charges for the fourth time in a series of trials lasting 16 years. More
Not Better, but More Humane: On Translating Romain Gary
"The Kites is the only book I have ever skipped work to finish ... Gary fully inhabits his language; he uses every square inch of every word, milking each… More
Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light
One of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s and a powerful presence in all of Latin American poetry, Baranda is best known for her… More
Of Sea, Sponge, Ant, and Prayer: On Translating María Baranda
"For Baranda, narration is not of social relations but of the essential. Her cry is resoundingly of sea, sponge, ant, and prayer, as related in rapture. It’s for her… More
Writers in the Schools: November
The MCSM RamPage, which Carol Cooper helped to edit, is nominated for a Newsie. In other parts of NYC, Writers in the Schools volunteers work with students from around… More
End Efforts to Compel Risen to Identify Source(s)
Dear Attorney General Holder, As members and supporters of PEN American Center, an organization representing over 3,500 writers, we write to you today to ask that the Justice Department… More
Lamentations of a Coconut Tree
This short story from the 2014 Neustadt Prize-winner was published after years of civil war following independence from Portugal in 1975 and is a chronicle of Mozambique's rebirth. Becker… More
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