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Whatever subjects they write about—unless they pose for headshot photos in keffiyehs.
Examining the quarrel that erupted within PEN America—a storied organization founded to protect freedom of expression—over an article reporting on discrimination against Jewish writers within the publishing business, Phoebe Maltz Bovy argues that the problem goes much deeper than submissions editors wary of books with overtly Jewish themes:
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Subscribe NowExamining the quarrel that erupted within PEN America—a storied organization founded to protect freedom of expression—over an article reporting on discrimination against Jewish writers within the publishing business, Phoebe Maltz Bovy argues that the problem goes much deeper than submissions editors wary of books with overtly Jewish themes:
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