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The Summer I Lost My Innocence
She was alive. I could see the covers move over her shoulder just a little bit. The morning light creeping through the sheer curtains at an odd angle across… More
Saudi Arabia: Poet Ashraf Fayadh Sentenced to Death
PEN is appalled at the news that Ashraf Fayadh, a poet, artist, curator, and member of British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia, has been sentenced to death. More
Junk Menagerie
Haley Teget was awarded First Place in Fiction in the 2015 Prison Writing Contest. More
Free Expression Digest: Mon., November 23
U.S. journalist Jason Rezaian sentenced, Gunmen kill TV reporter in Pakistan, and a Saudi Arabian poet is sentenced to death. More
Labels Break Me
He grows and he grows and still dreams of space. But along come friends to show him how to get there. A little plastic bag no bigger then his… More
Operation Ajax
This week, an excerpt from the graphic novel Operation Ajax about the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that remade the Middle East. More
Scorched-Earth
I still dream about those women, you know, but they are faceless. They come to me shrouded, reaching, their hands and fingers searching for mine, wanting to touch my… More
Holi Songs of Demerara
Rajiv Mohabir is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Lalbihari Sharma’s Holi Songs of Demerara, the only known literary work by one… More