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September Featured Cases: Turkey’s Ongoing Assault on Free Expression
This September, PEN America is featuring three cases that are illustrative of the breadth of individuals caught up in the expansive web of the purge in Turkey. More
Things That Go Bump in the Night
In this installment of The Illustrated PEN, artist and writer MariNaomi recalls a traumatic encounter she suffered as a teen, and describes how, years later, she still grapples with… More
You Surround Me
I’m not the same as myself // I’m not the opposite of myself // I’m downstream from the values of some ancient warrior class that got to decide what… More
Women in Translation Month: Disparity Within Disparity
Our final post, from Jane Eldridge Miller, makes a plea to readers to look beyond writers of the 21st century and outside of the languages most commonly translated into… More
Egypt: In Wake of Legal Setback, PEN America Renews Call for Release of Ahmed Naji
NEW YORK—The denial this weekend of Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji’s motion to stay his two-year sentence perpetuates the injustice of punishing a writer for the exercise of free expression,… More
Women in Translation Month: Women Translators Who Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
In the final two posts of the series, we have expanded the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and (in… More
The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj to Launch New PEN America Series on Muslim Identity
Amid a presidential campaign cycle infused with anti-Muslim sentiment and high profile hate crimes, PEN America is launching a groundbreaking program to elevate, amplify, and celebrate the voices of… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Fri. Aug. 26
iPhone spyware targets journalists, Newspaper reporter murdered in India, Russian activist held in psychiatric ward, and more. More
Treatment for a Story
"She curls up in bed. Pulls the dirty sheets over her and starts to doze...Starts to doze until the room pulls her awake, overpowers her with its clutter, its… More
Two Poems by Nicole Callihan
These are the things I did with the stick: / chewed it, waved it to the sky, poked myself / in the eye, pretended it was a daisy, pretended… More
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