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The Meanings of Yellow
Yellow has always caused me a certain amount of discomfort, perhaps because of its relation to sickness, to fear and despair. It also evokes power and the riches of… More
Night Walk
I think of everything there is that exists / and how little we know of it all / but mostly I think / of your sex / and your… More
Konstantin Raikin: “It will offend someone, so what?”
Konstantin Raikin, son of the great Soviet theater personality Arkadiy Raikin and a Head of the Moscow Satyricon Theater, gave a speech at The Union of Theatre Workers of… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Wednesday, October 26
Facebook targets Palestinian accounts, Yahoo scanning order unlike to be made public, Azerbaijan sentences youth activist, and more. More
More than 40,000 Americans Call on Justice Department to Investigate Retaliation Against Those Who Document Alleged Police Misconduct
PEN America, the ACLU, and People Demanding Action Petition Attorney General Lynch for Police Training on First Amendment Protections for Citizen Journalists More
The PEN Ten with Peter Ho Davies
"What I try to resist is the self-censorship that stops us even trying to write something. That to my mind closes down the possibility too soon. The decision point… More
Turkey: Evrensel Daily correspondent Cemil Uğur is Arrested on Terror Charges
PEN calls for Cemil Uğur's immediate and unconditional release. More
New Editors on the Illustrated PEN
By Antonio Aiello We launched the Illustrated PEN in the spring of 2015 with the graphic novel Baddawi, by Chicago-based Palestinian artist and organizer Leila Abdelrazaq. The series aspired to… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thursday, October 20
Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed freed in Somalia Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Mohamed, a British national, has been released from detention by Somali security agents in the capital Mogadishu. He… More
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