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Writer Rafiq Tagi Dies in Hospital Following Violent Attack
Rafiq Tagi, an Azerbaijani writer and longstanding critic of political Islam, died after suffering multiple stab wounds in an attack in the Azerbaijani capital on November 19, 2011. More
Occupy Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center was on lockdown last night after the New York Police Department erected heavy metal barricades all around the Center, even blocking off its small side entrances. Lincoln… More
Notes of a Native Son
I’m the truest sort of resident. The kind who, / asked to offer proof that he resides here, fails. / The guy who comes from someplace else & thrives… More
Slow Strokes: A Conversation with Ishion Hutchinson
A continuous influence is the Jamaican landscape, especially where I am from, Portland, in the east of the island. The influence of the land (and the porous land, the… More
The Warmth of Other Suns
There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes… More
PEN Welcomes Release of Uzbek Writer Dzamshid Karimov
PEN American Center today welcomed news that Uzbek journalist and PEN Honorary Member Dzamshid Karimov, who had been detained in a psychiatric facility for five years for reporting on… More
Writer Sentenced to Imprisonment on “Politically Motivated” Charges
On November 24, 2011, human rights activist, writer, and Belarus PEN Member Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment on charges of tax evasion. More
PEN Appeal: Ales Bialiatski
November 28, 2011 President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr G. Lukashenko Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: + 375 172 26 06 10 or +375 172 22 38 72 Your Excellency, On behalf… More
Angina Days
Powdered milk from the firm of Harrison Bros., Chicago, / dried egg from Walker’s, Merrymaker & Co., of Kingstown, Alabama, / any flour left unconfiscated by the German camp… More
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