Robert Darnton’s new book examines the effect state censorship had on literature in Communist East Germany, antebellum France, and 18th century colonial India.
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When the diplomatic relationship between two countries, for whatever reason, is strained, sports and the arts ease tension.
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Germany’s miserable divided past is China’s present reality. Forty years ago, singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann saw the truth of China’s situation under a dictatorship.
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Gorki Águila founded Porno para Ricardo in Havana back in 1998, and Cuba’s cultural landscape — in both its official and underground incarnations — has never been the same
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This week, Russian authorities dealt what may be the greatest blow to LGBT rights advocates since Vladimir Putin signed into law the infamous ban on “gay propaganda in the vicinity of minors.”
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Leaving to one side familiar landscapes and the immediate reference points of the city, you can hear the rumor of something sordid, but sordidness is not always rough, just precarious, a space without options, predetermined, where fatalism hangs over the characters like a dead weight.
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It thrilled me to immortalize Malala in song, and to take on a project that had never been done before. I had space to touch on the emotional aspects of her story.
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