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In Turkey, PEN to observe Pinar Selek’s hearing
Turkish sociologist Pinar Selek faces her fifth trial in 16 years More
What Captain Underpants Can Tell Us About Net Neutrality
PEN knows how the story about ending the open net goes: they're called banned books. More
The World’s Greatest Fisherman
She couldn’t help notice, when he paid up, that he had a good-sized wad of money in a red rubber band like the kind that holds bananas together in… More
PEN member barred from journalism in Honduras for covering corruption
PEN decries the 16-month ban on practicing journalism imposed on Globo TV news anchor Julio Ernesto Alvarado. More
In Turkey, writer Erol Özkoray convicted of criminal defamation
The writer, journalist and publisher convicted for his 2013 book about the Gezi Park protests. More
The PEN Ten with Peter von Ziegesar
Writing about my family in a memoir was about as daring as it gets ... I was sure that when the book came out I was going to be… More
In Cold Blood: Practicing Our Humanity on the Page
In a great book, even the most despicable characters have a chance for redemption, perhaps, one might argue, more of a chance than he or she might get in… More
Announcing the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize Winner!
And the winner is . . . Shawn Vestal for "Godforsaken Idaho." More