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Jason Walker has been reporting from inside Texas prisons for the last seven years. More

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As representatives of the global literary community, we write to call for the immediate and unconditional release of essayist and legal scholar Xu Zhiyong. More

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We the undersigned object to the news that several books dealing with the subject of race in America have been temporarily banned within Burbank public school classes. More

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We write to call for the immediate and unconditional release of writer, human rights lawyer, and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh. More

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We, members of the literary community in New York City, call on you to ensure writers and the literary arts organizations who support them are provided meaningful support. More

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Sign the letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres calling for an immediate investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. More

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This #WomensHistoryMonth, PEN staff came together to list books that deeply impacted us, and helped us understand sisterhood, and the importance of lifting each other up through a poststructuralist, hetero-patriarchal world. Happy reading and growing!

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