from The Arab
It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her—she’s simply incapable of cooking just a few things when she has visitors. More
from Thirteen Months of Sunrise
I don’t care how they take my body...What can this skinny, tired, and sickly body give them? What flames can it quench? More
from The Remainder
Someone has to die and it falls on me to find them, body after body, ever since my first unforgettable Sunday cadaver... More
from Edinburgh Notebook
In the desert, my love, in the desert I saw an elephant born. Its mother thought it dead, and in her desperate rage, she dragged it with her trunk... More
from The Palimpsests
Given my devotion to sex, I followed Hemingway to the white continent, where, due to the dearth of places in veterinary sciences, I enrolled in Antarctic philology studies. More
from Felix Austria
In the morning they discovered that a lock of hair from the severed head of John the Baptist vanished without a trace, as did the relics of St. Munditia… More
Women in Translation Month: Books Translated by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize
In the final two posts of the series, we expand the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and the PEN… More
Women in Translation Month: Books by Women Published After Receiving a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
These works of literature have been judged to represent the finest writing by women worldwide, brought into English—from Russian, French, Polish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, Pashto, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew,… More
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We @PENamerica joined @RightsDissent in urging @Tony4WI to VETO the Wisconsin Felony Trespass Bill (AB426). Trespass already exists as a crime, & the bill's penalties threaten to chill protected #1A activity. JOIN US to protect #protest rights in WI! https://rightsanddissent.org/news/a-deeply-undemocratic-bill-sits-on-wisconsin-governor-evers-desk-he-should-veto-it/
A prominent former journalist in mainland China now teaching in Hong Kong said he had been attacked by mainland trolls and accused of supporting independence for the city after sharing posts about Hong Kong’s unrest: https://bit.ly/2CXYx7l via @SCMPNews.
Battles over free speech are happening on campuses across the country. It's why PEN America developed a #CampusFreeSpeech Guide, which provides step-by-step instructions for scenarios involving invited speakers, academic freedom, campus protests & more: http://bit.ly/2MnVp90.