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A Literary Night Out: Spelling Bee Humiliation…
Last night, the PEN American Center held a party to celebrate the latest issue (#11) of the PEN America journal, a bouillabaisse of fiction, poetry, essays and conversations among… More
Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova
PEN American Center - one of the world's oldest literary and human rights organizations - joins forces with the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),… More
Book Groups Praise Reader Privacy Protections in House Patriot Act Bill
The Campaign for Reader Privacy today welcomed a new House bill that will restore important reader privacy protections that were eliminated eight years ago by the USA Patriot Act.… More
Writers Welcome Release of Maziar Bahari from Prison in Iran
Canadian-Iranian journalist and playwright Maziar Bahari was released from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on bail Saturday after spending nearly four months virtually incommunicado. PEN American Center continues to call… More
Essential Incarceration
At no time in the modern era has the concern over incarceration--its purpose and consequences--been so prevalent and urgent. This has been quite clear from the amount of legislative… More
RECKONING WITH TORTURE: MEMOS AND TESTIMONIES FROM THE “WAR ON TERROR”
Eight years ago, September 11th transformed New York City into a crowded hive of anxiety. Since then, there have been innumerable changes in our lives. The obvious ones include… More
Reading American Torture
On October 13, a sold-out crowd at New York’s Cooper Union listened for an hour and a half to readings by such prominent writers as Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo,… More
Book Groups Seek Meaningful Reader Privacy Protection
Groups representing librarians, booksellers, authors, and publishers, who have been working together for five years to restore the safeguards for reader privacy that were eliminated by the USA Patriot… More
Writers Press for Accountability on Torture
Writers took the stage with lawyers and former interrogators last night to read from the mounting public record documenting the torture of detainees in U.S. custody since September 11,… More
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