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Writers Rally for Release of Liu Xiaobo

E.L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Edward Albee, A.M. Homes, Honor Moore, and other PEN Members gather on the steps of the New York Public Library to demand… More

Celebrating World Literature

Patti Smith read poetry, Salman Rushdie talked supermodels as international writers from Estonia to Afghanistan to Mexico gathered to celebrate the PEN World Voices festival. Emily Stokes reports. More

Why We Must Defend Writers

Novelist Margaret Atwood shares her thoughts on the importance of keeping writers free from censorship and the power of stories to move us. On Tuesday night, before a glittering… More

The Quill and the Whale

Tuesday night, the trains weren’t running right. There we were, four New Yorker staffers in uncomfortable heels and bare legs, late for the PEN Literary Gala which, our invitations… More