DARE: WhatsApp Discovers ‘Targeted’ Surveillance Attack
Popular encrypted messaging app WhatsApp discovers vulnerabilities that could expose users to hacking after select users were targeted for surveillance... More
DARE: Press Freedoms and the Case Against Julian Assange, Explained
Assange's arrest and the charge he faces (conspiracy to hack a government computer) generate debate about and divisions over the implications for press... More
DARE: Facebook Backtracks after Removing Warren Ads Calling for Facebook Breakup
Facebook removes and then reinstates ads placed by presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of the social network... More
A Poet’s Return: Pavel Šrut’s Worm-Eaten Light
"For 10 years after Worm-Eaten Light was banned, Pavel couldn’t write poetry even if he’d wanted to because it had lost its meaning in new reality of normalization. Through… More
PEN Podcast: The PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award: Philip Roth
In celebration of the anniversary of the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, we feature friends of Philip Roth and Roth himself talking about his involvement in promoting… More
The Unimaginable Muse: On Translating Vítězslav Nezval
One of the most prolific poets of his generation, Vítězslav Nezval dazzled even his closest contemporaries with his linguistic facility and uncanny ingenuity. More
Philip Roth: 2013 Literary Service Award Remarks
Some of whom I met and spoke with were selling cigarettes at a streetcorner kiosk, others were welding a wrench at the public water works, others spent their days… More
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Is it right for Twitter to shut down 70,000 QAnon-related accounts? What about Facebook blocking #StopTheSteal? Check out PEN America's take on these questions & more in this guide of FAQs on free speech issues raised by the insurrection on Capitol Hill: https://bit.ly/38CjOnz.