After Charlottesville
Claire Messud, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Robert Pinsky reflect on the hatred boiling over in our country. More
The PEN Ten with Rion Amilcar Scott
The only responsibility of a writer is to zealously chase his or her obsessions to every weird logical and illogical end. More
from Insurrections
I bet if I were to ask him about these old times, he’d deflect with his signature joke, I hated you all equally. More
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The APWA—at 1,600 essays, the largest and first fully-searchable archive of nonfiction by those incarcerated in the U.S.—contains documentations of extraordinary resilience, resistance to dehumanizing practices, and the will to rebuild damaged lives. https://t.co/VxgRoIr8PW
Kirill Serebrennikov, one of Russia’s most renowned directors and a vocal opponent of Putin, is on trial for financial fraud. The trial is widely seen as a referendum not on his financial dealings but rather on the limits of artistic freedom in Russia.
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"Always I worry about my writers."
Speaking with the founder of Nogaam Publishing, which was launched in 2012 to digitally produce Farsi writings that are censored in Iran. https://t.co/LPCu9IrMBu