The Administration promised free expression. The results were anything but more freedom.
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My job in the library was my only peace in prison. The library was a little room, it couldn’t have…
“May we all be as kind, as talented, as hardworking, as in love with the game [of basketball] and the…
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Writer, performer, and visual artist Patti Smith is the 2020 PEN/Audible Literary Service Award honoree.
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PEN America’s 2023 World Voices Festival wrapped up on Saturday with a blow-out closing night event worthy of four days…
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The war has inflicted a catastrophic blow to Gaza’s cultural life and heritage, erasing records of Palestinian history that go…
