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A group of people at a protest holds signs. Below, text reads: "Students Could Face Harsh Penalties for Protests as Campuses, States Tighten Restrictions. Read the full blog on pen.org."
The image is a text quote from Kristen Shahverdian, Director of Campus Free Speech at PEN America. The quote discusses the theme of anxiety and fear in the academic year, mentioning high-profile arrests and a crackdown on expression, leading to concerns about exercising constitutional free speech rights.
A new Texas law restricting protests on college campuses means that "the theme of this academic year is anxiety and fear,” says Kristen Shahverdian, program director of campus free speech at PEN America. Learn more at: https://pen.org/harsh-penalties-for-protests-on-campus/
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Beyond grateful for such an incredible review of my podcast from @consequencef.bsky.social! It's been an honor to discuss things that matter with people I admire and respect. @hughmartin.bsky.social @sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social
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"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief."
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
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“I had to run in every direction, to explore this life myself.”
In Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (translated from Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy), childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself.
“A Plan to Save the World,” a poem by Hassan Akram translated and read by Ibrahim Fawzy has been anthologized in @bestliterarytranslations 2025 edition. To hear the poem, check out @deepvellum for a reading by Ibrahim Fawzy.
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Issue Seven up March 1! www.HouseofArcanum.org
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
with Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Brookings Institute Fellow and Director for Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Inheritance.
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Full episode of How Literature Can Save the World up Friday with former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Brookings Fellow, Mara Karlin!
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In Minnesota, despite showing documents proving active immigration cases, pending visas, or even US citizenship, residents were arrested and detained by ICE for days or weeks.
But many who were later set free are now encountering a new challenge: ICE isn’t giving back their immigration documents.
Issue 7 up March 1 at www.HouseofArcanum.org!
Issue Seven drops March 1 at houseofarcanum.org!
Issue Seven drops March 1 at houseofarcanum.org!
A collage of book covers with a central white box displaying the text "100 Books We're Anticipating in 2026" above the PEN America logo.
2026 is already shaping up as an unforgettable year for book lovers, packed with new works by favorite authors and exciting debuts that we at PEN America can't wait to dig in to.
Here are 100 books we can't wait to get our hands on: bookshop.org/lists/pen-am... #books #newbooks #readinglist
With the release of my new book and other craziness, I’m a little late to post, but check out last week’s episode of RFW where we talk tense and share original #flashfiction
Find us wherever you get podcasts! #writingcommunity #writingprompts #indieauthor
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Hey, #readerscommunity! Join Matt K. Parker and I as we discuss some of the MANY books he's read and loved. 🥳🥳
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"It is possible to not follow down the path of your parents and grandparents, and you can find healing and move on from these cycles that feel inescapable."
Read Christ’s interview with “A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing” author Alice Evelyn Yang here:
PEN America's 2023 PEN/Barbey #FreedomToWrite Awardee Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to yet more prison time in Iran. We stand in solidarity with Narges and call for her release, as well as many others unjustly jailed for their writing, expression, and activism narges.foundation/nobel-peace-...
Books for Hope, Resilience, and Action. Full list: youtu.be/5fsc-6-XpNU
Black graphic with a shape of a child's head filled with red dots to symbolize kids in ICE detention. White and red text reads "ICE has detained at least 3,800 children under the second Trump administration."
The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions.
Children do not belong in government detention.
I went on Fox News yesterday morning to explain that while the focus is on Minneapolis, Trump is trampling rights everywhere. All over the country, thousands of LEGAL immigrants, including little kids, are being disappeared.
That's what happens in Putin's Russia, not America.
The LOCUS 2025 Reading List header image, beneath that is the text: Novelette - Shadow Jack (Giganotosaurus 5/25) Anthology - Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C Day, Carina Bisset & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. CL HELLISEN
I am absolutely thrilled to have work included on the 2025 Locus Recommended List, alongside @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @seraph76.bsky.social @matociquala.bsky.social and many others.
Thank you, and I appreciate any and all votes!
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Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.
But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.
Mind blowing corruption.
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