The PEN Ten: An Interview with Laura van den Berg
“Story gives us a way to process and inhabit human experience, to feel things through language that we might be less willing to feel in our own lives.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Peter Meech
“In my novel, I wanted to demystify and deglorify violence, explore the protean nature of identity, and write about transcendence.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
“Stories, I would argue, force readers to look and see and come to their own conclusions, to reconsider arguments they might consider predetermined.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Horror as a genre is “the space of shadows on the wall that we stared at before we went to sleep when we were children and the frightful darkness… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jean Kyoung Frazier
“I’ve never been great at imagining my future self and the things she may want, things that will be good for her, but each year that goes by, I… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Mark Doty
“Poetry constructs communities across space and time by showing us our common ground. And it reminds us that words are more than just little packages of information.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Zaina Arafat
“So much of my writing is informed by my identity as a queer woman of color and a desire to combat that invisibility and erasure.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Megha Majumdar
“Stories help us imagine what it is like to be another person—to strive as they do, to cope as they do, to celebrate as they do—and that’s a vital… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Nathalie Handal
“A poem is the music of mystery, and until we embrace mystery, we can’t fully be.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Genevieve Hudson
“At their best, stories reveal the truth. They help us see the impact we have on ourselves, on our society, and on our planet.” More
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British university staff oppose efforts to sack colleagues who produce controversial research, according to a report on political diversity in higher education that claims to reveal “an important reservoir of support for academic freedom”. https://bit.ly/2PtORb4
The BBC reports on a video and text messages providing chilling and rare first-hand accounts of China’s highly secure and secretive detention system—sent directly from the inside. https://bbc.in/3fywaNT
Malaysian police have raided Al Jazeera's Kuala Lumpur office and seized two computers, the news network said, condemning the incident as a "troubling escalation" in the government's crackdown on press freedoms. https://bit.ly/3fupFvt