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 ...

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 ...

Capping off a tumultuous spring, free expression nonprofit PEN America held its annual Literary Gala on May 16, with more than 650 people in attendance, at the American Museum of Natural History in ...

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 ...

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.

Prominent literary organization PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony, which was due to be held next week, after 28 authors chose to withdraw their books from consideration. The group ...

"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 ...

NEW YORK — Author Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a ...

See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they stigmatize specific authors, Lauren Groff ...