Do We Have a Responsibility?
A discussion of the extent to which adults should protect children and teens against potentially disturbing or culturally problematic content in books.
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Against Monoculture
With the cancellation of two YA novels already this year, the PEN America annual meeting and panel discussion moderated by PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the...
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I Take My Turn for Translation
Announcing my new position as co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee.
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PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “It Can’t Happen Here”
A closing panel of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival addresses the question: could (or has) an authoritarian regime come to power in the United States?
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PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “What Shall We Tell the Children?”
The contributors to an upcoming volume of poetry, essays, and art on resistance offer advice to parents on talking to children in challenging times.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
