The PEN Pod: Fighting for Artistic Freedom in Myanmar with Karin Deutsch Karlekar and Bart Was Not Here
“It’s really striking to see the degree to which writing is at the heart of what we are debating about. . . . we are seeing just… More
The PEN Pod: Defending the Freedom to Write with Karin Deutsch Karlekar
“[It’s] important to not just look at numbers and to give trends a human face, and to really look at the individual cases of writers and intellectuals behind bars.” More
The ‘fake news’ trope is making it harder to fight state-sanctioned violence in Asia
In Southeast Asia, a region full of young democracies, journalists and press freedom advocates are alarmed by politicians’ eager uptake of two cultural memes spawned by the Trump election… More
After Bangladesh slaying, US considers refuge for bloggers
The United States condemned as "barbaric" Thursday the latest killing in Bangladesh of an outspoken opponent of radical Islam More