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Rights Groups Urge Sochi Corporate Sponsors to Speak Out to Halt Anti-LGBT Violence
Corporate sponsors of the Sochi Winter Olympics should act now to urge Russia to halt the rising tide of discrimination, harassment, and threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender… More
What is the Literary Scene in Russia Like Today?
The literary process is now organized as show business, with flashy presentations and contests, ratings, quizzes, and so on. Serious authors conduct TV shows and even advertise consumer goods. More
Pussy Riot Will Be Free; Speech in Russia Will Not
(PEN International)—Whilst the amnesty granted to the two imprisoned members of Pussy Riot – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Mariya Alekhina – is to be welcomed, we must view it for… More
Creativity’s Battles With Censorship
The West knows little about the cultural scene inside Iran today. Since the dawn of civilization until renascence, Iran has always been a great contributor to world's literature, art… More
The Shadow Book
First are the kinds of shadow books that fail to be written: the Africana Encyclopedia by Du Bois; the second novels of Jean Toomer or Ralph Ellison that never… More
Song of Songs
Why is Song of Songs singled out as the problem child? Song of Songs, the Bible's great love poem, is the zenith of the Bible's contemporary social incomprehensibility because… More
Internet in Burma: Using a New Tool to Change Old Laws
Nay Phone Latt was only 28 when he was jailed for his ties to the opposition and pro-democracy movement in 2008. During the 2007 Saffron Revolution, the monk-led pro-democracy… More
Calling all bookworms! Brooklyn Book Festival announces 2013 program
Over 340 authors, more than 90 panels and readings, over 60 ‘Bookend’ events More
Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe And The Countries They Shaped
As the ailing Nelson Mandela turned 95 this month, the international community celebrated his legacy and rooted for his recovery. Just to the north in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe,… More
Remember Tiananmen
As Milan Kundera famously wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” More