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In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost PEN America, once an important defender of

PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members.  By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost  Its refusal to condemn the&nbsp

PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne

Could it be the lighting or the toxidity of greasepaint? Whatever the reason, our opinionated thespians are forever ready to treat the proscenium arch as a pulpit and deliver sermons about the virtuous opinions they expect their audiences to embrace. From the STC to Cate Blanchett and the arts bureaucrats who hand out grants, being an insufferable prig appears to be an obligation

Julia Friedman on “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby” at the Brooklyn Museum & MOMA’s recent social-media postings.

The sentence was pronounced on 28 May 1934: three years’ exile in Cherdyn, in the Perm district of the Urals, following the instruction handed down ‘from above’: ‘Isolate, but preserve.’ In view of the seriousness of the offence, this was an extraordinarily mild sentence, an act of particular clemency. Mandelstam could

A tale of collaboration

Revered Chinese translator Wang Zhiliang passed away in Shanghai on Monday night at the age of 94, according to a report from the Beijing Daily.

Stalinism showed us the danger of subordinating art to the demands of ideology.

During the Stalinist era, the Soviet leadership decided to award a Peace Prize to foreigners, regardless of their political views. Since its i