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A Bold New Literary Festival in Haiti

Deji Olukotun | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Literature, Human Rights, Free the Word!, Books, PEN International, PEN Haiti, PEN American Center, Lit, Liberez La Parole, Free Expression, Haiti, World News
Deji Olukotun

Two years after Georges Anglade's death, PEN Haiti announced its re-emergence on the international literary scene with full fanfare last weekend.

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The Truth About Torture

Richard Geldard | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Osama Bin Laden Dead, PEN American Center, Osama Bin Laden, Gitmo, Torture, World News
Richard Geldard

In the dust-up following the death of bin Laden, a too-soon forgotten issue came alive again when Bush-era pols surfaced to claim that the "enhanced interrogation" (read torture) of detainees gave us crucial intelligence.

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Is Someone Reading Over Your Shoulder? Reader Privacy Fight Resumes In Congress

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reader Privacy, Patriot Act, U.S. Senate, USA Patriot Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011, Patrick Leahy, U.S. Patriot Act, Senator Patrick Leahy, The Campaign for Reader Privacy, American Booksellers Association, Association of American Publishers, PEN American Center, American Library Association, Books News

Last week, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the reauthorization of a bill that would restore protections for reader privacy that were formerly elimina...

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Princeton Scholar Re-elected As PEN President

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Princeton, Pen, Kwame Anthony Appiah, PEN American Center, PEN America, The Northeast, College News

NEW YORK — Author-scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah has been elected to a second one-year term as president of the PEN American Center. In a stateme...

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Writer Liu Xiaobo Release from China Demanded By Congress

PEN American Center | Larry Siems | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Liu Xiaobo, Writers, PEN America, Liu Xiaobo Release, Beijing Writer, Writer, PEN American Center, Books, Pen, Chinese Censorship, Books News

New York City, October 2, 2009--Calling yesterday's near-unanimous vote approving a Congressional resolution demanding the immediate release of critic...

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Why We're Challenging the FAA

Larry Siems | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nsa, Aclu, PEN American Center, Fisa, Warantless Surveillance, Fisa Amendments Act, Obama FISA, Politics News
Larry Siems

Programs that allow governments to spy on their own citizens are often directed against writers and intellectuals and pose a serious threat to the intellectual and creative freedoms of all citizens.

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Honoring Liu Xiaobo: 5 Reasons Why What Happens To Arrested Chinese Writer Liu Matters To Everyone

Larry Siems | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China-Charter-08, Liu-Xiaobo, Charter 08, Larry Siems, Tiananmen Square, China, Human Rights, PEN American Center, Liu Xiaobo, Beijing-China, World News

By Larry Siems, PEN American Center Next week, PEN American Center will award one of its highest honors, the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write A...

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Iran: Reading Tehran With Lolita (Time to Publish Iranian Writers)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, George W. Bush and Iran, Writers, Poets, Novelists, Diplomacy, PEN American Center, Schools, Iranian Culture, Iranian Literature, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

While Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran, chronicled her efforts to teach forbidden Western literature, most Americans would be hard pressed to recall a single novel from Nafisi's native country.

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