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Literature

When Writing Is Both Sentence and Liberation: The 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows

Twenty writers whose lives have intersected with the criminal legal system are named as the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows. A reminder that literature survives in the smallest rooms.

News

What the PEN America Awards Returned With — and What They Left Behind

The 62nd annual PEN America Literary Awards marked the first full ceremony since the 2024 author boycott. But to call it a return to form is already an interpretive act.

Reviews

From Glasnost to Silence: What Russia Tells Us About Books and Power

When state censorship criminalizes the word 'war' itself, something has gone wrong beyond politics. Svetlana Satchkova traces the collapse of literary freedom in Russia — and asks whether we are paying attention at the right moment.