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Scene 1 The setting is a street corner in a residential neighborhood of the mid-1960s. The corner of a lawn…
The war has inflicted a catastrophic blow to Gaza’s cultural life and heritage, erasing records of Palestinian history that go…
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Berkman…
My goal is always to get as far inside a character’s way of being in the world as I can,…
As writers, editors, and artists we stand together today in solidarity and outrage at the murder of our colleagues at…
PEN America’s fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This…
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today at its Annual…
PEN America today mourned the death of Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, an investigative reporter who was shot in Amsterdam…
