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Kyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBTQI law passes second reading
News that a law which will restrict positive discourse around sexual orientation has been passed in a second reading by the Kyrgyzstan parliament is deeply disappointing, PEN International and… More
New Report Demonstrates Chilling Effects of Nigeria’s ‘Anti-Gay Law’
PEN America and the Leitner Center team up to shine a light on repressive anti-LGBTI lawsNEW YORK— Eighteen months after its passage, Nigeria’s “anti-gay law” has sharply curbed freedom… More
Free Expression Digest: Thurs., June 18
PEN's Free Expression Digest brings you the latest news and developments on censorship, mass surveillance, and other challenges to free expression worldwide. Subscribe to the Free Expression Digest to… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., June 17
June 17 is the third anniversary of the jailing of Raif Badawi, Exiled from Syria: When the most dangerous place for journalists is your country, Thailand's junta deals free… More
Censorship and Salesmanship at America’s Biggest Book Fair
One evening last week, a group of writers, including Paul Auster, A. M. Homes, Jonathan Franzen, Ha Jin, Francine Prose, and Murong Xuecun, gathered on the steps of the… More
Retrospective
Boaz understood that while he respected Eva’s utter ease with herself—the woman had lost her entire family at an even younger age than Boaz but refused to act like… More
On Ukraine from the Inside (audio)
Meet the team behind The Russian Woodpecker, the conspiracy thriller documentary that follows Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich as he unmasks a Chernobyl disaster cover-up. More
2015 PEN Literary Gala: Andrew Solomon
These welcome remarks were delivered by PEN President Andrew Solomon at the 2015 PEN Literary Gala. More
The PEN Ten with Elif Batuman
"I think literature has a collective purpose, which is to process the reality of lived experience, in much the same way that dreams process the reality of waking life." More
2015 PEN World Voices Festival: On Ukraine from the Inside (video)
A conspiracy thriller documentary, The Russian Woodpecker follows eccentric Ukrainian artist Fedor Alexandrovich as he unmasks a Chernobyl disaster cover-up amid clouds of war and revolution. Winner of a… More