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Gay Propaganda: Sergei

There wasn’t a single gay man among them. There were grown men next to me, who’d come down with delirium tremens, schizophrenia. That’s when I learned that madness is… More

PEN Condemns Execution of Poet in Iran

On Friday, February 7, PEN learned that poet Hashem Sha'bani had been executed in Iran. The following post, which provides background on the poet’s life and case, was adapted… More

1950

All we did was move from our house to a stranger’s house, then one after another. Every so often an army officer yelled at us to keep heading south,… More