Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Finds Lessons in History, From Tehran to Orange County

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Sarah Damaske on How Unemployment Shapes Families

Sarah Damaske on How Unemployment Shapes Families

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How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?

How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?

Benjamin Bratton on Biopolitics and Rethinking the Language of Ethics

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Is New York City Doing Enough to Prepare for the Next Catastrophic Flood?

Is New York City Doing Enough to Prepare for the Next Catastrophic Flood?

Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros on the Expensive Half-Measures of the City's Post-Sandy Approach

By Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros | July 30, 2021

Jonathan Rapping on How to End Mass Incarceration in America

Jonathan Rapping on How to End Mass Incarceration in America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | July 30, 2021

New Fiction From PEN America’s DREAMing Out Loud: “Stateless: 2053”

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Stones for Goliath: On Biden’s Fight Against Digital Monopolists

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Kathie Klarreich: How Working with Incarcerated People Has Changed My Life

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What is the Point of Children’s Books About the Climate Crisis?

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Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism

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The U.S. has finally taken back the Epic of Gilgamesh . . . from Hobby Lobby.

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In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

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Amanda Choo Quan Considers the Effects of Anxiety and Racism on the Writing Life

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Why Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Truthers, and Other Conspiracy Theorists Believe Their Own Nonsense

Why Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Truthers, and Other Conspiracy Theorists Believe Their Own Nonsense

John V. Petrocelli on the Alarming Spread of Fake News and Society's Increasing Aversion to Critical Thinking

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The Belarus government has moved to liquidate PEN Belarus.

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Maureen Farrell on the Cult of WeWork

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