New York PEN America, facing ongoing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala The gala, which is the organization's major fundraiser, raised more than $2 million ...

Rhode Island signed into law the Freedom to Read Act on July 10. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a ...

Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled pages of book titles that could be restricted through new content ...

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.

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 says.

Since 2006, I’ve been one of PEN America’s 4,500-plus members, which includes writers, journalists, activists and professionals involved in the world of letters.

Salman Rushdie walked onstage at PEN America’s annual gala on Thursday night, his first public appearance since he was stabbed and gravely wounded in an attack last August at a literary event in ...

PEN America has canceled its annual literary awards ceremony after nearly half of the authors nominated withdrew in protest over the organization's response to the Israel-Hamas war.

PEN America's latest report details the damage that book bans do to authors. 'Matrix' novelist Lauren Groff is on the front lines with plans to open a Florida bookshop.

PEN America and the authoritarian spirit. For writers living under an authoritarian regime, the price of intellectual independence is clear—censorship, prison, exile—but so is its value.