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When culture is a target of war, who ensures it lives on? In our latest blog, we interview PEN Ukraine members about their tireless work—restocking the shelves of damaged libraries, hosting conversations on culture, and promoting the work of Ukrainian writers.

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These people have tried to break so many of us without lifting a hand. Let's not let them.

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The image is a text quote from Kristen Shahverdian, Director of Campus Free Speech at PEN America. The quote discusses the theme of anxiety and fear in the academic year, mentioning high-profile arrests and a crackdown on expression, leading to concerns about exercising constitutional free speech rights.

A new Texas law restricting protests on college campuses means that "the theme of this academic year is anxiety and fear,” says Kristen Shahverdian, program director of campus free speech at PEN America. Learn more at: https://pen.org/harsh-penalties-for-protests-on-campus/

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How Literature Can Save the World: A Podcast with Michelle R. Brady By Rya Vallabhaneni. “Michelle always brings it back to empathy. She brings it back to reading.”

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7 Questions for Ibrahim Fawzy - The Massachusetts Review Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language ...

"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief."

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“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.”

In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.

“A Plan to Save the World,” a poem by Hassan Akram translated and read by Ibrahim Fawzy has been anthologized in @bestliterarytranslations 2025 edition. To hear the poem, check out @deepvellum for a reading by Ibrahim Fawzy.

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This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

with Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Brookings Institute Fellow and Director for Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Inheritance.
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ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks.

But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.

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Issue Seven drops March 1 at houseofarcanum.org!

Issue Seven drops March 1 at houseofarcanum.org!

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2026 is already shaping up as an unforgettable year for book lovers, packed with new works by favorite authors and exciting debuts that we at PEN America can't wait to dig in to.

Here are 100 books we can't wait to get our hands on: bookshop.org/lists/pen-am... #books #newbooks #readinglist

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With the release of my new book and other craziness, I’m a little late to post, but check out last week’s episode of RFW where we talk tense and share original #flashfiction
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Hey, #readerscommunity! Join Matt K. Parker and I as we discuss some of the MANY books he's read and loved. 🥳🥳
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