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Retrial of Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad Repeatedly Postponed; Concerns for Health
Maikal Nabil Sanad remains detained pending a retrial for his critical online comments. More
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Everything / you thought / you knew / you don’t. / Because you’ve stepped / off the edge / of your life / into sickland. More
Three Poems
A calm sign in the trees of May: she’s dead, / not like this dirge staining the air, her name / recited in the camphor-house where the chalk /… More
Birds in the Mouth
I turned off the TV and looked out the window. Silvia’s car was parked in front of the house, with the emergency lights on. I wondered if there was… More
PEN Deplores Occupy Wall Street Press Freedom Violations
Journalists were barred from streets in lower Manhattan surrounding Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of police in riot gear descended upon the park shortly after 1 a.m. on November 15. More
A Theory of the Novel
a boy’s attention, corralled / in sand, pebbles, and the sun’s / slow clockwork, fails to take in / the wreckage, though / years from now, he’ll describe it… More
PEN Appeal: El Siglo de Torreón
November 17, 2011 Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, DISTRITO FEDERAL, México Fax: (+… More
Another Newspaper Office Attacked By Armed Gang
In the second of its kind in 10 days, the offices of the Mexican daily newspaper El Siglo de Torreón were attacked by at least three armed men on… More
Keeping Up with the Kids: Five Questions for George Dohrmann
Spending so many years around the players and the parents, it created a different dynamic than the one I typically have with subjects. I was more invested, although it… More
PEN Statement on the Murder of Chechen Anti-Separatist Poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov
On November 15, 2011, Ruslan Akhtakhanov, a prominent Chechen poet, was shot dead in Moscow in what the authorities believe to be a contract killing. More
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