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Chen Wei & Chen Xi Imprisoned
Chinese writers Chen Wei and Chen Xi were both given long prison sentences over the holidays. The PEN American Center denounced the action, calling it “an eerie replay of… More
Activist at Heart: A Conversation with South African Cartoonist Zapiro
Zapiro is South Africa’s most celebrated cartoonist. His penetrating cartoons hold the country’s power brokers to account, lampooning everyone from former president Nelson Mandela to the late cricket star… More
Disenchantment in the Cowshed
Ji Xianlin’s 1998 memoir recounts the painful and deeply disenchanting period he spent in the “cowshed,” an improvised prison on the Peking University campus for intellectuals labeled as “class… More
from sourcings
what echoes across waters : / taotaomo’na— / from ‘taotao’ [‘people’] ginen ‘mo’na’ [‘precede’]— / ‘people of before’ ‘before time ancestors’ ‘ancient people’ ‘people before / recorded time’ etc More
Artists Declare State of Emergency in Belarus
An appeal to: Baroness Cathy Ashton, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, U.S. President Barack Obama, Spanish… More
Artists Declare State of Emergency in Belarus
An appeal to: Baroness Cathy Ashton, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, U.S. President Barack Obama, Spanish… More
Dialogues with Imaginary Partners
Readers should not expect straightforward autobiographical narrative, however, but a work in the symbolist mode, in which the semantic range of words is extended. More
Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons: Mesmeric Force
In real terms throughout the Arab world, the reciters of such tales were concerned not with life but livelihood, for their audiences had to he encouraged to return, night… More
Selected Poems
The rainy season is a league away traveling / at the speed of an era. The cloud formation / does not dissolve as I remove my eyes / from… More
Václav Havel: Constant Champion for Freedom of Expression
Václav Havel, dissident playwright and poet, honorary president of Czech PEN, and statesman, who died on December 18, 2011 at age 75, will be remembered by all at PEN… More
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