In March, the Press and Publications Directorate banned the following books from the Bahrain International Book Fair. Because of our commitment to freedom of expression, Sampsonia Way recommends these books to all those who speak Arabic.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center President Tienchi Martin-Liao reviews Dark Road, a new novel by Ma Jian about a couple’s unbalanced fight against China’s cold-blooded one-child policy that is made not to protect, but to destroy, lives.
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Pakistani author Bina Shah discusses the reactions to her novel Slum Child including the views of the “Denialistanis,” individuals who deny accountability and refuse to accept any criticism about Pakistan and its citizens.
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From our ongoing video series The Writer’s Block, a Q&A with Dutch novelist and poet Erik Jan Harmens conducted during his visit last month to City of Asylum Pittsburgh. In his writing Harmens has dealt with the theme of love as well as terrorism.
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In this video Dutch poet Hélène Gelèns reads “Gedicht voor twee stemmen en een klok” (Poem for two voices and a clock) at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. Hélène Gelèns is a writer of poetry, essays, and short prose.
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“The London Book Fair is not only a cultural event, but also an enormous commercial chance for Britain,” writes Tienchi Martin-Liao, president of Independent Chinese PEN, of China’s massive presence at this year’s installment of the literary festival.
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Israel Centeno reviews Double Lives by Stephen Koch, which looks back at Willi Müzenberg and the Innocents’ Clubs of the early 20th century. Such groups of naïve left intellectual sympathizers of “good despots”, Centeno argues, still abound today.
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