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Scrambled Eggs
Plunder culture, culture plunder / Going into debt so as to be employable so as to slowly pay off that debt, or never, or having been born into it,… More
Colombia: kidnapped journalist and author released by guerrilla
PEN is delighted to report that the veteran Spanish-Colombian journalist and author Salud Hernández-Mora was released by the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group on the afternoon of May… More
The PEN Ten with Jean Guerrero
"Censorship of others is a form of violence. It is unacceptable unless the speech or information flow would somehow lead to worse violence." More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Tues., May 31
Indian police try to block Facebook video mocking Sachin Tendulkar, video of Japanese journalist held hostage in Syria surfaced, and more. More
Edith Grossman: Making Translation Matter
Presented by the PEN America Translation Committee as part of the 2016 World Voices Festival of International Literature at the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan Honoring One of the… More
Iran: Journalist to serve up to ten more years in prison
PEN condemns the 16-year sentence handed down to Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Fri., May 27
UN committee denies media accreditation to CPJ, survivors of sexual violence in Columbia speak out, 47 hunger strikers may be freed in Egypt, and more More
Primahood: Magenta
"Tyler Cohen is a pro at tackling the sticky subjects of gender identity, sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to be a girl." More
Reading Tsvetaeva on Father’s Day
the last safe days of my life / what I knew, what I bound with string / a word of hers, repeated / a kiss on the forehead —… More
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