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You Wait for Me with Dust: Worldwide Reading for Liu Xiaobo
Today, over 100 individuals, organizations, bookstores, and PEN centers are participating in a worldwide reading organized to honor our imprisoned colleague, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. More
Mounting Concerns for Translator Mohammad Soleimani Nia
Literary translator Mohammad Soleimani Nia, who has started a hunger strike in protest against his being detained without charges, is said to be in fragile condition. More
How America Came To Torture Its Prisoners
It began with one document. More
It’s Spring and There Is Still More Work to Be Done
Spring has sprung. And we’re thinking about body again. When and how to walk it out into the sun and how to care for it. More
Visas Denied to Artists
As an organization devoted to a free exchange of literature and ideas around the world, PEN was pleased to receive assurances from the State Department last year that the… More
John Reed: Two Sonnets
The truth is, I only tell 13 lies. / Lie no. 2: I lie in praise of heaven. / Three: this is between just the two of us.… More
Writer and Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s Life Is in Danger
Writer and prominent human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja enters the 65th day of his hunger strike, begun on February 8, 2012, in protest against his detention and ill-treatment. In… More
Reckoning with Torture: Readings by Mai Spann-Wilson and Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo and student Mai Spann-Wilson read aloud a classified memo describing the CIA's rendition, detention, and interrogation program. More
Reckoning with Torture: Readings by Samantha Osaki and Lili Taylor
The Reckoning with Torture project is based on a simple but powerful notion: that coming to terms with human rights abuses starts with reading the documentary record. More
Case Histories: Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 in Nigeria. He studied at University College Ibadan and the University of Leeds in the UK, graduating in 1957 before working… More
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