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PEN Literary Award Winners Announced
The 2014 PEN Literary Awards were announced Wednesday, with playwright David Rabe and critic James Wolcott among the winners. More
Open letter to Senate leadership: Mass surveillance is censorship
Dear Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa); and Select Committee on Intelligence Chairwoman… More
China Denies Entry to an American Scholar Who Spoke Up for a Uighur Colleague
BEIJING — When Elliot Sperling, an American professor, landed here in Beijing after a 12-hour flight from the New York area last weekend, he found himself dragged by border… More
China on Proposed Embassy Address: “Sheer Farce”
BEIJING (AP) — Beijing on Wednesday blasted as farcical a U.S. congressional panel's proposal to rename the street in front of China's embassy in Washington after an imprisoned Chinese… More
‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision
John Adams said he learned that the Metropolitan Opera was scrapping plans to transmit his opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” to movie theaters around the world when the Met’s… More
PEN blasts anti-gay censorship at Moscow book festival
It seems the Moscow International Open Book Festival is too open for the Russian government. More
We still don’t know who’ll win the global battle for free speech
Twenty-five years ago, four big things happened that still shape our world. The Berlin Wall came down, and with it the empire that Vladimir Putin would love to restore.… More
A Celebration of Letters and a Few Characters
PEN American Center Literary Gala Celebrates WritersAnna Wintour and Beyoncé lured the eyes of the fashion world to the shimmering Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,… More
Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Pussy Riot members at gala championing freedom of expression
NEW YORK (AP) — On a night championing free expression and featuring speeches by Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison and two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot, no… More
The PEN and Met Galas: A Tale of Two Seatings
The pen is mightier than ... not much For $12,500, you could have been a Patron of last night’s PEN Literary Gala. That would have bought you a table for… More
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