Blog
Filter By:
Advocacy • Analysis • Blog • Commentary • Drama • Essay • Event • Feature • Fiction • Graphic Narrative • Interview • Memoir • News • Obituary • Open Letter • Poetry • Press Release • Profile
Browse By Series:
PEN Poetry Series • Prison Writing • The PEN Ten Interviews • Illustrated PEN • Pen Pals • The PEN World
Browse By Email Subscription:
PEN America News • Educational Censorship News • Works of Justice
Afghan Writer and Activist Malalai Joya Granted U.S. Visa
Two days after PEN joined with the ACLU and the American Association of University Professors to protest the denial of a visa to Malalai Joya, a renowned women’s rights… More
PEN Appeal: Bertrand Teyou
March 31, 2011 President Paul Biya Fax: +237 22 22 08 70 Mr. Philemon Yang Prime Minister Fax: +237 22 23 57 35 Your Excellencies, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American… More
Chinese Writer Liu Xianbin Sentenced to 10 Years for Inciting Subversion
PEN American Center condemned the 10-year sentence handed to writer and PEN member Liu Xianbin last week on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” calling the conviction for… More
Author Jailed for Insulting President’s Wife
PEN International condemns the imprisonment of author Bertrand Teyou, detained since November 2010 for "insulting" President Biya’s wife in a book published last year and for attempting to hold… More
Writers Hail U.N. Accord Ending Push to Ban Blasphemy
PEN American Center today praised the U.N. Human Rights Council for ending efforts to restrict speech considered offensive to religions, calling the Council’s recent unanimous vote on a religious… More
PEN Welcomes Edward Burlingame and Jacob Weisberg to Board of Trustees
The Board of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, voted at their meeting on March 24, 2011, to appoint Edward… More
Two Rai Al-Shaab Reporters Released, Editor Still Detained
PEN International welcomes the release from prison of Rai al-Shaab journalists Ashraf Abdel Aziz and Altahir Ibrahim on February 6, 2011, on completion of their sentence. More
Mildred Pierce
In the spring of 1931, on a lawn in Glendale, California, a man was bracing trees. It was a tedious job, for he had first to prune dead twigs,… More
Outside the Box
Dateline: Somewhere between Portland and New York, Elite Access Compartment, United Airlines Flight #485 Z.I’m currently on a plane, en route to the glitzy premiere festivities for Mildred Pierce,… More
Support for the freedom to read with exclusive designs by Todd Parr, Mike Curato, Art Spiegelman, and more!
