“I am convinced that what we are seeing is something seen before: these angry flailings are dangerous and frightening, but they are death throes, not signs of rebirth.” -South African writer Tony Eprile on the parallels between Trump’s rise to power and the end of apartheid in South Africa
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French National Front leader Marine Le Pen says, “I’m not a racist, I eat couscous.”
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“By adding to, subtracting from, and reinterpreting the original, the translator implies that he knows better than the original text knows, that in effect his mind is superior to its mind.” -Clayton Eshleman
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“The Earth–this atom lost in the universe–is much too small to hold all this hate and racism.” – Osama Alomar
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An interview with Israel Centeno, one of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the past fifty years and writer-in-residence of City of Asylum.
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Turkish writer Aslı Erdogan was taken into custody on August 17, 2016 and has been imprisoned at Bakirkoy Closed Prison For Women since August 19.
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Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin’s political love affair has been no secret and continues to threaten the transgression of democratic norms.
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