![]() ![]() This past Saturday, as part of the festival, Gessen was set to moderate a panel showcasing writers in exile, two of them, like Gessen, Russian-born authors who had left their country in disgust. It has also led, quite precipitously, to the writer Masha Gessen’s decision to resign as the vice president of PEN’s board of directors. ![]() Now the impulse to censor anyone Russian has arrived in the United States, at a venue that is designed to-of all things-champion and promote freedom of speech and expression: PEN America’s annual World Voices festival. Such boycotts have only increased in intensity, and in ways that demonstrate how wartime assaults on freedom can ripple far outside the conflict zone-where the sound of war is not that of bombs detonating but of piercing silence. Moscow’s famous Bolshoi Ballet was disinvited from touring abroad. Russian literature was kept high on the shelf. Since the earliest days of the war in Ukraine, much of the Western world has become squeamish about Russian art. ![]()
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