Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

By Yan Lianke | April 23, 2024

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

On America’s Two-Party System... And the Damage It Has Done

Gabrielle Bellot Tries to Think Beyond the Red/Blue Binary That Makes Enemies of Neighbors

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 23, 2024

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Your Presence Is Mandatory”

By Jane Ciabattari | April 23, 2024

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

The Byronic Revolution of Che Guevara

Ed Simon on the Lives and Legacies of Two Icons of Romanticism and Rebellion

By Ed Simon | April 19, 2024

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

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

By Adam Kuper | April 17, 2024

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

By Steven W. Thrasher | April 16, 2024

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

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

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

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

Henry Hemming on Bloody Sunday, Frank Hegarty, and Life in the IRA

By Henry Hemming | April 15, 2024

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

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

Adam E. Casey on America, China, and the Future of Revolutionary Rule

By Adam E. Casey | April 15, 2024

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

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

“The silence of our institutions stands on 75 years of inertia.”

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

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