Suzanne Nossel, who led PEN America for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she is leaving her position as chief executive of the free-expression advocacy organization. In January ...

PEN America says there was an "unprecedented" surge in book bans during the latter half of 2023, according to a new report. The free expression group says that from July-December of last year ...

"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 ...

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from ...

PEN America, an non-profit organisation that defends freedom of expression and human rights in the US and around the world, "has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide ...

Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report ...

It sounds like the start of a joke, but the evening’s tone was anything but. At a PEN America’s star-studded literary gala, hosted by comedian Amber Ruffin in the Natural History Museum’s oc ...

At the PEN America Literary Awards, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman and others discussed the role A.I. could play in literature. By Anna Grace Lee On Thursday evening, more than 1,000 writers ...

PEN America hides behind the false universalism of free speech, but institutions always choose whom to protect. Israel’s assault on Gaza has shuttered every one of its schools and universities ...

PEN America, on the other hand, found book bans have doubled in the 2023-24 school year compared to the previous academic year. Experts highlight the different methodologies used in the two ...