Since When Did It Become A Crime To Be a Jewish Writer?
PEN’S latest scandal should be the final wakeup call
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PEN America
PEN President Resigns To Protest the Uncovering of Antisemitism
How did an organization designed to protect writers end up abandoning Jews to persecution?
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2024: The Year In Censorship
From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events
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Banned Books Week Issues A Call To Action For 2024
Freedom To Read advocates are feeling the urgency of an election year.
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BFG Podcast #149
‘Challengers,’ writers intimidate PEN America, and a new memoir from Salman Rushdie
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PEN America Takes the Coward’s Way Out
Literary organization has canceled its annual awards after nominees drop out to protest the Israel-Gaza war
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2023–The Year in Censorship
A glimmer of hope!
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The Persecution of Yang Hengjun: Where’s the Global Outrage?
Imprisoned Australian-Chinese writer’s health has taken a severe turn for the worse, but not many in the literary community seem to care
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It’s Getting Harder to Deal With Soft Censorship
PEN America issues report indicating a huge ongoing political battle
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The Movement To Defund Public Libraries Picks Up Steam
Conservative legislators, in the heat of a culture war, seem increasingly willing to starve library systems of funds
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Books As “Surplus Property”: A New Angle for Censorship
Novelist Dave Eggers calls Rapid City book destruction an “unconscionable horror”
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Attacks on Student Access to Books Ramping up Nationwide
An unprecedented wave of censorship attempts
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Leander ISD Pulls More Books From Curriculum
Onslaught against “challenging” literature continues in Central Texas
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Don’t ‘Forget the Alamo’
After conservative critics complain, history museum pulls out as host hours before book event
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Battle Over School Reading Lists Continues in Suburban Austin
PEN America joins fight after Leander ISD “pauses” book recommendations
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