But what does “inappropriate” mean? Too inappropriate for your current age? Inappropriate because of ideals you don’t hold? Suggestive of alternative lifestyles? Yes — to all of the above.
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Tarık Günersel weighs the effects of freedom of speech laws and awards, Islamofascism and sentiment towards USA relations in Turkey.
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A video interview with poet Martin Espada about his newest collection, his activism, and the modern academy’s impact on the revolutionary potential of poetry.
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La ciudad de Santo Domingo será durante varias semanas la capital de Cuba. Y así ha de ser porque uno de los libros más desgarradoramente vitales de la literatura cubana actual.
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Over the next few weeks, Santo Domingo will take on the role of Havana as it steps up to the plate for the movie adaptation of one of Cuban literature’s most important novels.
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In a way, one can see the publication of Lolita in Afghanistan as mutually beneficial to the literary cultures of both Iran and Afghanistan.
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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