Learning About the Armenian Genocide
Armenians were neither passive nor submissive victims, but the power to decide their fate was largely out of their hands. A “great inequality in agency” existed between Young Turks… More
Remedios Varo: Letters, Dreams and Other Writings
Then I told the executioner that now he could kill me, because the man I loved was woven together with me for all eternity. More
Argumentative Essay
This essay was written by Jazatte Dalisay, a ninth-grade student at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, and participant in PEN's Writers in the Schools program. More
Cat and Mouse, Dog and Ouroboros
For many years China has been a prototype for countries trying to control and censor the Internet, but it seems that censorship in China has reached the end of… More
Sacred or Profane? On Bless Me, Ultima
And yet, I was only half Italian. I was only half Catholic. I was only half open to these ideas. I was only half. What could make me whole?… More
To Encounter Ocean Power
I can’t shake the image of young students—the gears of their minds at work—as they watch and take account, assess what it means to pull books from shelves, set… More
PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize ($10,000)
for a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue More
Chill Blue Paint Box: Rereading Sons and Lovers
In 1975, Sons and Lovers meant to me the Gethsemane of emotional ambivalence—erotic yet ascetic, the stakes high as scripture, translated into genital dialect. More
On James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
Whatever fear strikes any reader of Baldwin’s book awaits right in that opening paragraph: an unseemly portrait of faith. It is not literary sex, or violence, or the conflation… More
Animal Farm: Banned by the Soviets, Promoted by the CIA
Though the book cannot and should not be divorced from the Russian Revolution, Orwell sees beyond the specifics of that revolution, and even beyond revolution itself, to tell what… More
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