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Recommended Reading: Literary Sports Writing
These works of literary sports writing discuss much more than games. Award judges Joel Drucker, Chad Harbach, and Jackie MacMullan have chosen the following nine titles for the PEN/ESPN… More
(Poem from a Prison Cell)
If you ask after my finest day / on an occasion when words of pride are called for / I’d call history to mind, and say: / It was… More
Snowden One Year On: Four Things We Know
On the first anniversary, PEN looks at what we've learned over the course of one year of ongoing revelations, the state of surveillance reform moving through Congress, and what… More
On Surveillance: A Conversation with the American Reader
The NSA data net kind of has the same relation to the public as an individual person has to a celebrity. The NSA has this false appreciation of the… More
Honduras: PEN Urges Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Protect Journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado
At least 40 journalists have been killed in the country since 2003—35 since the coup d’état in June 2009—while others are facing threats, law suits, and other attacks in… More
The Transparent Chinese
Traditionally, privacy was not taken seriously in China. A traditional saying states, “nothing needs to be withheld from the people,” and that “the good will not be hidden, what… More
Tiananmen at 25: Enforced Amnesia
Memory should never be a crime. We join our colleagues in China and around the world in commemorating the blossoming of freedom of expression on Tiananmen Square in May… More
Commemorating the Massacre: The Tanks and the People
The Tank Man Wang Weilin was not one of the student leaders; he was no intellectual; nobody had ever heard of him. He left behind this short dramatic scene,… More
The PEN Ten with Rigoberto González
Observation is posing interesting questions. Surveillance is getting specific answers. Only one of those is meant to be used against the private citizen. The line, then, depends entirely on… More
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