Pen America
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The Test of the Institutions May 10, 2024
The center is not holding. Take a recent outrage that follows numbingly familiar dynamics. The writer-support organization PEN America comes under sustained assault from a more radical wing and, after multiple open letters and much back-and-forthing,...
Pen America Has Surrendered Over Israel April 30, 2024
Another day, another opportunity for huffy, hypocritical “progressive” posturing. PEN America has now been forced to cancel its World Voices literary festival in New York and LA, on the heels of also cancelling its 2024 awards ceremony. Too many auth...
On Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma” April 23, 2024
Something is rotten in the state of contemporary literature. You can smell it from a mile off—in the Poetry Foundation’s censorship of a review that espoused anti-Zionist views; in the Frankfurt Book Fair rescinding the Palestinian writer Adania Shib...
