PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

By Literary Hub | April 18, 2024

The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

The PEN Awards and World Voices Festival Are on the Brink of Collapse

"We cannot, in good faith, align with an organization that has shown such blatant disregard of our collective values."

By Dan Sheehan | April 17, 2024

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

How a 19th-Century German Anthropologist Planted the Roots for Nazi Racial Theories

Adam Kuper on Gustav Klemm and the Fraught History of Cultural Institutions in Europe

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 16, 2024

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

By Ben Ehrenreich | April 15, 2024

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Alissa Quart Reckons With the Precarity of the Writing Life

By Alissa Quart | April 15, 2024

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How Ordinary Irish Citizens Got Caught Up in the Violence of the Troubles

By Henry Hemming | April 15, 2024

Considering the Lessons of the Cold War for the Next Great Power Rivalry

By Adam E. Casey | April 15, 2024

Why I’m Using My PEN Nomination to Protest for Palestine

By Sarah Cypher | April 12, 2024

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen...” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen...” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

Kelly E. Hill on Women Defying Societal Norms in the Nineteenth Century

By Kelly E. Hill | April 12, 2024

Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

By James Folta | April 11, 2024

An open letter from North American scholars condemns the

An open letter from North American scholars condemns the "scholasticide" in Gaza.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2024

Dev Patel on Destruction and Growth

Dev Patel on Destruction and Growth

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | April 10, 2024

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide

“Poetry’s belatedness hauntingly echoes international law’s belatedness when it comes to defining genocide.”

By Philip Metres | April 9, 2024

Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster to build its AI.

Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster to build its AI.

By James Folta | April 8, 2024

Death and The Maiden: What Rewatching <em>The OC</em> Can Teach Us Now

Death and The Maiden: What Rewatching The OC Can Teach Us Now

Kelly Marie Coyne on Society’s Lethal Obsession With the White Starlet

By Kelly Marie Coyne | April 5, 2024

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