A Literary Activist’s Guide to the PEN America Digital Archive
I find archives strangely comforting…they are reminders of what’s recurred and changed, reminders that others were grappling similarly in the past and theirs are the shoulders we stand on. More
Power to the People Requires Press Defense
We can do a better job of demonstrating how persistent journalism directly affects community change…here are a few ways reporters have used human stories to bring about substantive action. More
from Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA
Vaccaro’s legion of critics would accuse him of hypocrisy. After all, he made his living for years off the unpaid players. More
from Patient H.M.
Memories make us. Everything we are is everything we were. This has always been true and is so obvious that it hardly needs to be said. More
from Evicted
What the judge was saying, in essence, was: We all agree that you were poor and scared when you did this violent, hurtful thing. More
from The Girls in My Town
With the fortune-teller’s words echoing in my head, I told myself to fight like a warrior. Screaming felt good. I screamed until my throat became sandpaper. More
Lessons Out of Crisis
Part of the important, enduring tradition of Pride is the community’s insistence on creative disruption…We bring forward demonstrations of joy, grief, and rage particular to LGBTQ experience. More
Class Notes: A Protest March
September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality… More
The Intersection: Let Us Now Parse Famous Men
We must still confront the broader crisis of language—of what to do with a president who defines truth on his own terms…What can writers do in this moment? More
from Dark Money
Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Read an excerpt from the book. More
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