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Anita Hill, Bob Woodward honored at annual PEN American gala
The featured speakers at the annual benefit gala for PEN America shared stories about truth and the determination to learn it. Hundreds gathered Tuesday night at the American Museum of… More
Lupita Nyong’o Honors Anita Hill at the PEN America Literary Gala
Funnyman John Oliver is well known for his #nofilter persona, which makes him perfectly suited to host the annual gala for the literary and human rights organization PEN America.… More
Two “Artists of the Air” on the Limits of Time and Space
Every year PEN America presents its World Voices Festival, a literary festival in New York City featuring at least 200 writers and artists from over fifty countries in conversation… More
Balancing Free Speech and Inclusion: Four Simple Strategies for Campus Leaders
Drawing on recent work by PEN America, Jonathan Friedman presents four simple strategies that campus leaders can employ to signal their support of these principles and to proactively prepare… More
Literature provides shelter. That’s why we need it
I am truly honored to have been invited by PEN America to deliver this year’s Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture. What better time than this to think together… More
‘A taste of freedom in China’: Tiananmen Square crackdown commemorated in New York
Hundreds gathered in a New York cathedral on Tuesday to pay tribute to the protesters that were brutally suppressed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown three decades ago, kick-starting commemoration… More
Free at Last: Joy and Applause as Reuters Reporters Are Released From Myanmar Prison
Two Reuters reporters jailed for their coverage of the Myanmar military’s violence against Rohingya Muslims were released Tuesday after spending 511 days in prison, bringing a long-awaited close to one of… More
Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters reporters freed from prison in Myanmar
Suzanne Nossel, chief executive of PEN America, a nonprofit that defends the advancement of literature and human rights, said the journalists have proved their “courage and fortitude.” More
Is Chinese-style surveillance coming to the west?
What is happening in Orwellian China today is a warning to us in the west that the freedoms we have so blithely taken for granted are already being compromised… More
Reactions to release of Reuters journalists from Myanmar prison
Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walked free from prison in Myanmar on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars on convictions for breaking the… More