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Beauty and Truth
Long before I became a writer, I knew one day I would tell the story of my family during the Khmer Rouge regime. Even in the midst of that… More
A.M. Homes Wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
Today PEN America extends a hearty and booming congratulations to longtime member and festival participant A.M. Homes, whose most recent novel, May We be Forgiven, was just awarded the… More
New Approach Needed in Leak Investigations
PEN American Center warns that overzealous investigations in the U.S. threaten press freedom and free expression abroad as well. More
Three Poems by Aracelis Girmay
I wanted you to, Mother, / never let me free. I am home again, // if I lay on my side beside / the sleeping wolves, once men— //… More
Remember Tiananmen
As Milan Kundera famously wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” More
The PEN Ten with Masha Hamilton
It was about 8PM, already dark. As we greeted a man and his mother in a narrow, unlit street of the camp, soldiers on rooftops swooped down on us.… More
PEN’s Letter to President Obama on Press Freedom and Leak Investigations
PEN American Center is deeply disturbed by expanding encroachments on press freedom in the United States in the name of leak investigations, and by the increasingly aggressive nature of… More
Three Journalists Convicted and Sentenced in Criminal Defamation Trial
PEN International is deeply concerned by the draconian sentences handed down by a Milan court on May 22, 2013, to Andrea Marcenaro, Riccardo Arena, and Giorgio Mulè. More
from MW: A Field Guide to the Midwest
What my parents were most silent about was what they hated more than anything. They were professionals afterall, and to be professional means keeping one’s mouth shut. When my… More
Trial Continues Against Writers and Academics
PEN International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of various writers, journalists, and academics currently detained and/or on trial in Turkey. More
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