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Two Poems by Kirill Medvedev
On the day of my thirty-seventh birthday I ended up involved / in murdering the president. I was in charge of watching the windows of his palace / and… More
Most Writers in Democratic Countries Wary of Government Snooping
In the U.S., 27 percent of writers admit they'll skip writing or talking about a particular issue out of fear that they're being spied upon. More
Survey: Most Writers in Free Countries Worried about Spying
Three-quarters of writers in liberal democracies are concerned about government surveillance and one-third have censored their own writing because of those fears, according to a new survey.The analysis from the… More
New PEN Report Demonstrates Global Chilling Effect of Mass Surveillance
Self-Censorship in Democratic Countries Approaching Authoritarian Levels: Ripple effects of mass surveillance are reverberating worldwide, driving writers to self-censor, according to a new report by PEN American Center released… More
II. 2015: Biographies of Candidates to be Elected or Reelected to the Board of Trustees
OFFICER CANDIDATES For President: Andrew SolomonNon-Fiction Author Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology, and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University.Solomon's newest book, Far… More
The Language of King David: On Translating Arseny Tarkovsky
"In his poetic and spiritual freedom, Tarkovsky outlasted the slag and dross of totalitarianism. His poetry is the internal cinema of the Soviet era, an unscrolling testimony of the… More
Chistopol Notebook
Though Tarkovsky is one of Russia's greatest poets of the twentieth century—on the ranks with Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodsky—he remains little-known in the West. Philip Metres's and Dimitri Psurtsev's… More
Your Students … Or Your Customers?
“In other words, know your customer,” she says. Customer. This word is the last straw. I can't keep my hand down any longer. As if it’s not enough that… More
Auction of First Edition Classics Annotated by Their Authors Raises $1 Million to Benefit PEN American Center
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral Top-Seller at $80,000. Underworld by Don DeLillo Fetches Second Highest Bid of $57,000. More
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