DARE: Denver Post Rebels Against Its Hedge-Fund Ownership
In extraordinary public appeal, Denver Post’s “News Matters" report on its own fate shows readers how far-away hedge fund investors demanding greater profits can decimate local information sources. More
The PEN Ten with Oddný Eir
"The writer is responsible for what he writes. I'm old fashioned and think that the writer is responsible for making us more responsible and keeping words alive so we… More
Cold Moons
Meg Matich, a recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, translates a collection of sparse, minimalistic ecopoetry by Icelandic poet Magnús Sigurðsson that deals with nature's resilience to… More
A Cosmologist of Language: On Translating Magnús Sigurðsson
Through intricate wordplay and a titanic understanding of his native Icelandic, Sigurðsson is able to create tiny but arresting artifacts—fragments that scale an instant to an aeon, and a… More
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"The threats we've been addressing all over the world... also manifest right here on our own doorstep in the United States," @SuzanneNossel tells @jheil on @DeadlineWH. #SalmanRushdie #FreedomToWrite
Honoured to contribute to this anthology as India marks 75 years of independence today. Read more about the initiative and the contributors below. @PENamerica http://PEN.org/india-at-75 #IndiaAt75 https://twitter.com/penamerica/status/1559162982604709890
In the first essay in the PEN America-sponsored Freedom to Learn Series @madebyhistory @washingtonpost, Jonathan Zimmerman explores the history of the history wars. "We cannot celebrate... freedom of thought and then tell every individual what to think." https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/08/15/truth-about-history-education-wars-2022/
