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August Featured Cases: Artists Under Attack
This August, PEN’S Featured Cases highlight three artists at risk, who have been harassed, arrested, fined, censored, or killed for expressing themselves and producing art for others to enjoy… More
Free Expression Digest: Thurs., July 28
Turkey shuts down more than 100 media outlets, UN asks Brazilian authorities to investigate journalist killing, Post reporter barred and patted down at Pence rally More
Germanness
Sarajevo was liberated in April of 1945. A month or two later they came for Opapa to take him to a camp, from which he, like all his compatriots,… More
The Illiterate Man
My first years were spent behind the shutters, in a room without engravings, in an archaeological silence a thousand years in the making... More
Flower Sedan
Of course, Mother assumed I was a virgin. She insisted I ride the flower sedan, that I was not to miss out on a prerogative so cherished. More
Operation Hinterland: Tales from the Silver Scrapheap
This might sound odd, but there are times when a last chance can seem less of a boon and more of a burden, because the tension in a situation… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., July 27
Photojournalist shot dead in Libya, Indian activist to end 16 year hunger strike, and more More
Support for the freedom to read with exclusive designs by Todd Parr, Mike Curato, Art Spiegelman, and more!
