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Works of Justice: A Brief Interview with Poet Edward Ji
"Writing is not 'resistance.' This places counts me eight times a day, but does not know I’m here. Like winter, life does not care if you die. It is… More
PEN America Condemns U.S. Decision to Bar Entry to Austrian Academic
"The Department of Homeland Security needs to explain immediately why Thomas Schmidinger was blocked from traveling to the U.S." More
DARE: Google Algorithm Will Highlight ‘Original Reporting’
Dozens of U.S. states are set to launch antitrust and privacy investigations into Facebook and Google as scrutiny of the big tech firms increases. More
DARE: How trolls manipulate the media
Dozens of U.S. states are set to launch antitrust and privacy investigations into Facebook and Google as scrutiny of the big tech firms increases. More
California Gig Worker Bill May Have Unintended Consequences for Press Freedom
"Absent amendment to allow freelancers the flexibility to opt out of the law’s classification, the bill actually stymies opportunity for those who might otherwise benefit from working on a… More
As Part of National Banned Books Week, PEN America to Focus on the Right to Read in the Nation’s Prisons
“With all of our societal focus on how to make the criminal justice system more just and less self-defeating, vindicating the right to read in prison is an obvious… More
The PEN Ten: Jordy Rosenberg on Inspiration, Graphic Novels, and Radical Historians
"The process of translation makes clear that no one language has power over another." More
DARE: Newspapers lobbying on Capitol Hill against Facebook and Google, Khashoggi transcripts released
Dozens of U.S. states are set to launch antitrust and privacy investigations into Facebook and Google as scrutiny of the big tech firms increases. More
DARE: Here is the case against Big Tech—and what Big Tech has said in response
Dozens of U.S. states are set to launch antitrust and privacy investigations into Facebook and Google as scrutiny of the big tech firms increases. More
Translation FAQs
The PEN Translation Committee is currently updating its FAQs page that serves as a compendium to the Model Contract for Literary Translations. In the meantime, please refer to the Translator's… More
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