Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao profiles celebrated writer Yan Lianke. Longlisted for this year’s Man Booker International Prize, Yan is known to provoke and expose the CCP, despite official bans and censorship.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo’s thoughts on the unofficial screening of the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry at an independent cinema in Havana, Cuba, and of Walfrido López Rodríguez’s photography project inspired by Ai’s “Study of Perspective” series.
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Polina Martínez Shviétsova’s writing has that fragmentary strength that emanates both from delirium and ingenuity. A fiction writer, poet and freelance journalist, she is the author of two books of poetry, Gotas de Fuego and Tao del Azar, and a short story collection, Hechos con Metallica.
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“Philactosophy” is Tarik Günersel’s neologism that means “love of action related to wisdom.” After the Declaration of Earth Civilization Project, he thinks about further steps.
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Passivity, gangsterism, and a lack of unity in Venezuelan politics. “When attempting to describe the government’s regime and its characteristics, the search for unity of purpose within the opposition ends up muddled,” writes Israel Centeno.
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Author of the short story collection Zona de Exorcismo, Espineta Osuna takes refuge in an upper floor of one of the few tall buildings of Camagüey, Cuba. From there, with explosive silence, like a gladiator illuminated by her own letters, she has been writing a novel for years.
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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