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PEN, Co-Plaintiffs Settle OFAC Lawsuit
PEN joined publishing industry co-plaintiffs today in announcing that they have successfully resolved their lawsuit against the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). OFAC has revised its… More
With PEN’s Assistance, Refugee Iraqi Writers Now Safe in U.S.
PEN’s efforts to secure safe havens for threatened Iraqi writers and journalists bore fruit this past month, as two PEN colleagues and their families were flown from Syria to… More
PEN Applauds Introduction of NSL Reform Act
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, a coalition of organizations representing librarians, booksellers, publishers, and authors, cheered the introduction today of legislation to safeguard the privacy of ordinary Americans and… More
Iran Frees Scholar Kian Tajbakhsh
PEN American Center welcomed the release of Kian Tajbakhsh, a social scientist and urban planner who was arrested at his home in Tehran on or about May 11, 2007,… More
Tribute to John Steinbeck
Studs Terkel: The More Things ChangeIt’s Steinbeck’s prophetic touch, that touch of clairvoyance, which makes his book so pertinent today. In 1989 I found myself on a farm in… More
PEN Raises Questions about the Investigation of Anna Politkovskaya’s Assassination
After almost a year with little news of the progress of the investigation into the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the arrests in late August 2007 of ten… More
On Music, Writing, and Being Moved
Saturday mornings in my early ’70s, Alabama childhood home were weekly cleaning time. My mother would turn the oldies station on the radio, break out the mop bucket, cleaning… More
District Court Strikes Down National Security Letter Provision
PEN American Center welcomed U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero’s decision striking down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The ACLU challenged the law in Doe… More
Treatment Kind and Fair
D e c i d i n g t o B e a D o c t o r —C h o o s i n g a n… More
The Higher Power of Lucky
Lucky Trimble crouched in a wedge of shade behind the Dumpster. Her ear near a hole in the paint-chipped wall of Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum and… More
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