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Larry Siems about NSA and Digital Surveillance
What kind of harm really comes from the surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden and other activists? We need to know more, says Larry Siems, director of PEN America's… More
PEN Protests Kerim Yildiz’s Visa Delay
Kerim Yildiz, a British citizen and leading human rights advocate for the Kurdish people, has been waiting more than nineteen months for a visa to travel to the United… More
Nigerian writers face climate of intimidation, censorship and repression
In anticipation of Nigeria's review yesterday at the United National Human Rights Council, PEN International released a statement in conjunction with the International Publishers Association expressing concern for the… More
The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship in China
Many Chinese authors refuse to self-censor at great personal risk to themselves and their families. In the first half of 2013, there were 33 Chinese writers languishing in… More
On Translating Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
It was because I’d read and translated Kaddour’s poem that, when I saw a collection of Dadelsen’s work on a bookshop’s tiny poetry shelf, I picked it up, leafed… More
Selected Poems of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
Women are wise. They never love except across us, love / The idiot, the pig and the coward hidden in us, love only / Our death / Which we… More
PEN at the UN Human Rights Council: Nigeria on the Brink
Nigeria's burgeoning democracy, on the cusp of a digital revolution, faces dangerous threats to journalists and censorship. More
PEN at the UN Human Rights Council: End Impunity for the Killing of Mexican Journalists
PEN will press Mexico at the UN Human Rights Council to provide better protection for journalists and writers, with 46 killed since 2006. More
Tyranny of Parents: Banning Shel Silverstein
Warning: What you are about to read contains profanity, vile, morbid, and anti-parent material, suggestive illustrations, subliminal messages that glorify Satan, suicide, cannibalism, disrespect for truth and legitimate authority,… More
How Brave Are You?
What would you do if your neighbors faced annihilation? PEN's Freedom to Write Program Coordinator Sarah Hoffman on the Newbery Award-winning Number the Stars. More
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