Opening Night 2015: Tom Stoppard (audio)
"We are not trapped in our narrative." More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Tom Stoppard (video)
For this flagship event, speakers gave original, lyrical, and humorous insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night (full audio)
For this flagship event, speakers gave original, humorous, and lyrical insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night (full video)
For this flagship event, speakers gave original, lyrical, and humorous insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
After weeklong controversy, Charlie Hebdo receives PEN award at literary gala in NYC
Under armed security and a cloud of conflicted opinions and emotions, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was presented a freedom of expression award on Tuesday night from the… More
2015 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award
Tom Stoppard "The idea of society is not intelligible to me without the idea of the artist, the poet—there were no… More
May 5 PEN Literary Gala Honors Free Expression Defenders on the Front Lines
In a year bloodied by violent attacks on expression, PEN will honor Tom Stoppard, Charlie Hebdo, and Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle. More
Tom Stoppard, Don DeLillo, Billy Crudup read for Belarus Free Theater
Playwright Tom Stoppard, novelists Don Delillo and E.L. Doctorow and actor Billy Crudup are among those who will read Jan. 19 in New York to benefit the Belarus Free… More
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Iran says it has arrested the exiled journalist Ruhollah Zam for allegedly using a messaging app to stir up dissent: https://t.co/unZAai7Rvf via @BBCWorld.
1st Amendment defines incitement too narrowly to including #Trump's rantings. Neither Framers nor generations of Sup Ct Justices quite foresaw the unique dangers of such incendiary rhetoric combined with the power of the Presidency https://t.co/pg3AzSHcy8