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PEN President Resigns To Protest the Uncovering of Antisemitism

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Rebecca Kurson 0 Comments Achille Lauro, Anne Boyer, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, authors, BDS, Beirut Fragments, book publishing, cancel culture, Censorship, Dinaw Mengestu, Doubleday, editorial standards, free speech, freedom of expression, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Gaza, George Packer, Hamas, identity politics, Israel, Leon Klinghoffer, literary culture, Marjane Satrapi, New York Times Magazine, October 7, Park Slope Food Coop, PEN America, performative activism, performative quitting, Publishing, publishing industry, self-censorship, SodaStream, Suzanne Nossel, The Atlantic, The Believer, Thomas Gebremedhin, Vogue, writers

How did an organization designed to protect writers end up abandoning Jews to persecution?

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‘The Emergency’ Can’t Outrun Its Own Allegory

November 26, 2025November 28, 2025 Matt Hanson 0 Comments American dystopia, Atlantic writers, contemporary fiction, dystopian fiction, Farrar Straus Giroux, George Packer, The Emergency novel

George Packer’s new novel aims for Orwell and Huxley but that’s a high bar

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The Kurtzman Era of Star Trek Boldly Goes Into the Trashcan

July 23, 2026July 28, 2026 William Schwartz 2

How to understand the demise of NuTrek

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Extras: An Obituary

July 22, 2026July 30, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 3

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