PEN America Statement on Sally Rooney Turning Down Hebrew Translation of Her Novel
PEN America reacts to news that Sally Rooney will hold off on the Hebrew translation of her new novel. More
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel Testifies on Censorship and Free Speech Issues in China
“The regime’s determination to hunt down dissenters wherever they are instills a sense of fear from which there is no escape, even far beyond Saudi borders.” More
The PEN Pod: The Other Black Girl with Zakiya Dalila Harris
“I’d always wanted to be a writer before working in publishing. . . . I was also feeling fatigued as the only Black woman on my floor and in… More
PEN America Responds to Decision to Take Philip Roth Biography Out of Print
We are concerned about a precedent whereby even egregious misdeeds by an author result in a book being withdrawn, and potentially taken off limits for readers. More
PEN America: Simon & Schuster Should Not Cancel Pence Book Deal
Publishers are free to choose what books to release, but once those decisions are made, there should be a very high bar for reversing them as a result of… More
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Bots appeared to target not just the most prominent feminist accounts, but also users with smaller followings who had engaged with Iranian feminists’ content by liking, posting, or sharing it. https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/iran-activists-instagram-protests/
We share @L4L_INT & others’ grave concerns for #XuZhiyong and #DingJiaxi’s human rights amid their arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, torture, and closed-door trials. China must immediately release Xu and Ding, who both face life in prison on sham “subversion” charges.
