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The Censor in Each of Us
W. B. Yeats had a dream that was “almost as distinct as a vision, of a cottage where there was well-being and firelight and talk of a marriage, and… More
Twitter CEO optimistic, says news about company’s decline is exaggerated
While Wall Street is concerned over reports of Twitter's slowed user growth, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is optimistic. "We had re-accelerating user growth in our biggest market, the U.S., in… More
Salman Rushdie Respects Twitter, Is Also Kind of Over It
“Oh, that old thing,” Salman Rushdie groans when you bring up the fatwa issued against him by the Ayatollah over his depiction of Mohammed in his novel The Satanic… More
A Uighur Father’s Brave Fight
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The last time I saw my father was on Feb. 2, 2013. We were at the international airport in Beijing, about to board a flight to… More
Taking Fares, and Writing in Between: Osama Alomar Pursues His Literary Ambitions in Exile
In the Arab World, the Syrian writer Osama Alomar has a growing reputation as the author of parables on political and social issues. But where he has lived in… More
A Great War Reading List at PEN World Voices Festival
July is the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, but publishers got a major jump on the anniversary last year. Christopher Clark’s“The Sleepwalkers,” Margaret Macmillan’s “The War That Ended… More
Time Is Running Out For Ethnic Peace And Reconciliation In Xinjiang
In my last post, I questioned if the recent Chinese efforts to meet Uyghurs’ deep concerns about their living conditions and their cultural future could or could not be… More
Reading (and Spelling) to the Death: Literature Gets a Pop-Culture Boost at Literary Death Match
If literature could use, as Adrian Todd Zuniga says, "a boost from pop culture," it got one Wednesday night at his Literary Death Match, part of this week's PEN… More
PEN World Voices Festival Opens ‘On the Edge’
The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival got underway Monday night with a series of brief politically focused speeches by prominent international writers at the Great Hall at Cooper… More
Rushdie on award, ‘Satanic Verses’ history
Writer PEN President Salman Rushdie is set to receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, and he joins Morning Joe to discuss the honor. More
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