Authors are staging their own protest amid an extraordinary week of action against Israel’s occupation of Gaza. In solidarity with a free Palestine, a group of 29 writers and translators sent a letter ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on the ...

Ruffin's new gig with PEN America comes after the White House Correspondents Association excluded her from its annual dinner. After the White House Correspondents Association axed Amber Ruffin from ...

On Wednesday, PEN America, the writers advocacy organization currently in serious crisis because of its refusal to oppose the genocide in Gaza, suffered another blow to its prestige and credibility.

PEN America has canceled its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony, which was previously scheduled to be held at the Town Hall in New York City on April 29, although some awards will still be conferred. The ...

On May 7, hundreds gathered at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village for Freedom to Write for Palestine, a gathering of writers who withdrew from PEN America's World Voices Festival and ...

More writers have declined to participate in the writers advocacy organization PEN America’s events and refused PEN’s awards, or even consideration for such awards, because the organization ...

Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers' group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the event, ...

Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.