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On John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
The story is a tragedy predicated on the idea that working one’s fingers to the bone for little pay and no security is fundamentally corrupt. It’s a tragedy about… More
Nguyen Xuan Nghia | Status: Released | Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan Nghia, a poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist, served a six-year sentence for "conducting anti-government propaganda" under Article 88 of Vietnam's penal code. The indictment against him cited… More
QA: Rajasthan Dissuades Rushdie from Attending Lit Fest
The Rajasthan government has reportedly asked the organizers of the Jaipur Literature Festival to dissuade novelist Salman Rushdie from attending the annual event, which begins Jan. 20, citing security… More
Free Expression in RSA: A Conversation with South African PEN’s Margie Orford
South Africa ended a civil war not through a fight to the death, but rather by saying we’ll just stop fighting and have a braii (barbecue) together and be… More
Turkish publisher arrested — here’s why
Kwame Anthony Appiah, the President of PEN American Center, said yesterday that the arrest was “a disturbing sign of a decline in the climate for free expression in Turkey… More
Reality Far More Absurd: A Conversation with Zhou Qing
I’m a writer. I can’t build useful machines, nor can I farm crops. Given that I can write, I need to spill ink towards something significant, meaningful. More
Renowned Chinese Writer and Musician-in-Exile Makes U.S. Debut
This evening, the Pen American Center and The New School will host Chinese author and musician Liao Yiwu, one of China’s most exciting and most censored writers, in his… More
PEN American Center Announces the 2011 Translation Fund Grant Recipients
The PEN Translation Fund, now celebrating its eighth year, is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s competition. From a field of more than 130 applicants, the Fund’s… More
Photocopies of Photocopies: On Bao Ninh
Bao Ninh, now living in Hanoi, became a novelist in the second half of his life. Until the age of forty, he served in the North Vietnamese Army, fighting… More
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