On December 6th several AP reporters were able to sneak into the house of Liu Xia for her first interview since she was placed under house arrest two years ago. Tienchi Martin-Liao on the true love story of Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia.
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In the third installment on Orwell’s 1984 and totalitarianism, Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno outlines the themes of 1984.
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Despite a successful career, Indian playwright Mahesh Dattani struggles to deal with censorship, not from the government, but from his peers and patrons.
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This week: free speech at U.S. universities, Internet regulations to be discussed at the ITU, and Iranian writers call for an end to book censorship.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya reflects on the 10-year silence of author Liliana Heker, who was stricken by an extreme case of writer’s block.
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This week: Bahraini activist Zanib Alkhawaja profiled, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now!, and impacts of government censorship on literary expression.
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Writer, photographer, and artist Nyi Pu Lay reminds us of the many wounds Burma has suffered and the long road to her full recovery.
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