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The Principal of the Thing
"Covertly removing books is a way of circumventing any conversation about why you are removing these books from libraries and, in effect, schools, necessary if you were to officially… More
Open Letter: President Obama, Don’t Forget Free Speech in Turkey
PEN America joins with other concerned groups focused on free expression in publishing in sending an open letter to President Obama on the eve of Obama's meeting with Turkish… More
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