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Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova
Salman Rushdie, Michael Arena, Ann Cooper, Keith Gessen, Tanya Lokshina, and Elena Milashina gather to discuss the life, work, and legacy of the slain Russian journalist at the 2009… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
American EyesEvery day as a child I looked at a yellow box of American cereal while I enjoyed my breakfast at an American kitchen table at my home, in… More
Etgar Keret & George Saunders
I was amazed by your stories, by the quality and quantity of imagination, and the unbelievable overflow of ideas. So I wanted to ask a question that’s probably unfair.… More
The Acrobat
Palm Springs, California, 18 January 1954Sharpen the blade on the strop fixed to the wall, moisten the soap in the bowl with hot water, remove any loose bristles from… More
Day of the Imprisoned Writer
In any given year, International PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) monitors around 1,000 attacks against writers, journalists, poets, publishers and editors worldwide. These range from persistent harassment and… More
Q & A with Larry Siems, Director, Freedom to Write and International Programs
In 1921, two years after the First World War, British writers (C. A. Dawson Scott and John Galsworthy) founded the first PEN (poets, playwrights, essayists, editors, and novelists) center… More
Promoting democracy while suppressing ideas
This spring, the U.S. State Department sent a message to the Association of American Publishers announcing new procedures for expediting business visas for U.S. companies' foreign employees, customers and… More
PEN Raises Questions about the Investigation of Anna Politkovskaya’s Assassination
After almost a year with little news of the progress of the investigation into the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the arrests in late August 2007 of ten… More
On Music, Writing, and Being Moved
Saturday mornings in my early ’70s, Alabama childhood home were weekly cleaning time. My mother would turn the oldies station on the radio, break out the mop bucket, cleaning… More
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