Posted: 07/23/2014 8:07 am EDT Updated: 07/23/2014 5:59 pm EDT
Having thought about Shakespeare for most of my life, I have concluded that the best way to learn about his plays, his language, his themes and his stories with any real depth and integrity is to memorize Continue reading
What new regulations might mean for China’s beleaguered reporters.
BY DAVID SCHLESINGER , ORVILLE SCHELL , ROGIER CREEMERS , WEN YUNCHAO JULY 22, 2014
On June 30, China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television posted a statement on its website warning Chinese journalists not to share information with Continue reading
ChinaFile:Can Chinese Journalists Still Push Boundaries?已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged China, Free Expression, Journalists, Press Freedom
PUBLISHED ON JULY 21, 2014
The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks with Michael F. Moore, the chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and an interpreter/translator from Italian. Continue reading
The PEN Ten with Michael F. Moore已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Tagged Michael F. Moore, PEN Ten
July 22, 2014 2:30 AM
Posted By: Samuel Wade
The New York Times’ Kiki Zhao reports the sudden firing of journalist Song Zhibiao over commentaries he wrote for a Hong Kong website. China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Film, Continue reading
Journalist Fired Over Work for Hong Kong Website已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom
Tagged Fired, Journalist, Song Zhibiao
PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY 18 JULY 2014.
Hu Jia links the attack to the recently launched “Return to Tiananmen Square” campaign
Unidentified men attacked dissident blogger and human rights activist Hu Jia as he was returning to his Beijing home on 16 July. The target of permanent police surveillance, Continue reading
UNIDENTIFIED MEN ATTACK DISSIDENT BLOGGER NEAR HIS PARKED CAR已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Hu Jia, June 4th, Return to Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen
ESSAYS
Danielle Fuller
DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Bar Crowd. Photo by Jonathan Adami
Photo by Jonathan Adami
In our hyperdigital era, mass reading events provide opportunities Continue reading
“And Then We Went to the Brewery”: Reading as a Social Activity in a Digital Era已关闭评论
Posted in Culture
Tagged Digital Era, READING, Social Activity
Posted July 21st, 2014 by English PEN staff & filed under Campaigns.
English PEN was saddened to learn of the death of our former president Josephine Pullein-Thompson Continue reading
Memories from PEN, a tribute to Josephine Pullein-Thompson已关闭评论
Posted in PEN International News
Hilton Als JULY 10, 2014 ISSUE
For Evgenia
Kara Walker/Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Kara Walker: Burn, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 1998 Continue reading
