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Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is still in jail in Egypt despite completing his five-year sentence, was selected by PEN Pinter winner Arundhati Roy

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are trending up +0.17% this morning as market participants braced for the start of the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting while also awaiting the latest reading on U.S. job openings as well as an earnings report from tech giant Microsoft.

The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

Cancellation of World Voices festival comes days after organization cancelled 2024 edition of its annual awards ceremony

Dozens of nominated writers had withdrawn from consideration by literary and free-expression organization

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

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.

Authors withdraw from PEN America awards over Gaza conflict stance, sparking debate in literary community.

Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano joins Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang's culinary thriller Morte Cucina, promising a captivating addition to cinema.