In this interview, renowned photographer Luis Brito talks about the risks and difficulties of taking pictures during Chávez times. Brito’s work has been banned from state museums and galleries.
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In this interview novelist Ismet Prcic discusses the seven year process of writing Shards, the sometimes fine line between reality and fiction in the novel, and the ways in which war can restructure the fabric of life as we know it.
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In this interview filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz talks about REPORTERO, a documentary on press freedom inside Mexico, meeting and following the real “characters” in his film, and the history of violence on reporters in Mexico.
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In this interview with Sampsonia Way, the Venezuelan cartoonist Rayma talks about the ways she has found to represent Chavez’s forbidden face as well as her thoughts on freedom of the press and violence in Venezuela.
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Daniil Kislov, founder and editor-in-chief of Ferghana News, paints a bleak outlook for journalism in Uzbekistan and says the independent media in the country is in a “deep freeze.”
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The editors at Tea Leaf Nation talk about what China’s new internet regulations mean for microbloggers, speculate on Twitter’s future in China, and explain some of the techniques Chinese netizens are using to work around regulations and censorship.
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Writers Colleen J. McElroy, Carl Phillips, and Natasha Trethewey, faculty members of African-American poetry workshop Cave Canem, weigh in on the debate around Black History Month’s relevance.
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