Monthly Archives: 6月 2014

Banned Books Around the World

October 4, 2012 Jen Rickard Blair

As Banned Books Week comes to a close, we shift our gaze upon the censorship of authors on an international scale. Below is a list of 17 books that have been banned in the last decade. The original version of this list can be found in WLT’s censorship issue published in September 2006. Continue reading

Perry Link Commented the Confucius Institutes

Monday, June 23, 2014 – 1:07pm

Bob Kapp is right that China has a “marvelous cultural repertoire,” that Americans should learn more about it, that Chinese culture is best learned through Chinese language, that Chinese-language programs in North America need more resources, and that it would be nice if China pitched in. Continue reading

How Amazon and Goodreads are changing literary criticism

Tuesday 24 June 2014 9:12AMAnna Frey Taylor and Michael Cathcart


A smart phone next to an open book IMAGE: FROM GOODREADS TO AMAZON, THE INTERNET HAS DEMOCRATISED BOOK REVIEWING. (GETTY IMAGES/JILL FERRY PHOTOGRAPHY)
The past decade has seen a flourishing of amateur literary Continue reading

Books for Prisoners: leading writers take campaign to Downing Street

Posted June 27th, 2014 by English PEN staff & filed under Campaigns.

Leading authors will gather at Downing Street today (Friday 27 June) to urge David Cameron to overturn restrictions on sending books and other essentials to prisoners Continue reading

Uighur Scholar Will Fight Charges of Separatism in China, Lawyer Says

By CHRIS BUCKLEYJUNE 26, 2014

Ilham Tohti, a scholar and advocate for China’s beleaguered Uighurs. Credit Andy Wong/Associated Press
HONG KONG — Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uighur scholar charged with separatism after he repeatedly Continue reading

China: What’s in a Law?

By: Sarah Hoffman

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 25, 2014

Five years ago this past Monday, PEN received word from our sources inside China that Liu Xiaobo, who had been held under “residential surveillance” at an undisclosed location in Continue reading

Today, June 25, is George Orwell’s birthday!

 

 

 

To mark the occasion, here are some awesome Ralph Steadman illustrations of Orwell’s anti-totalitarian Continue reading

The PEN Ten with Lawrence Venuti

PUBLISHED ON JUNE 17, 2014

Karen Van Dyck

The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks to Lawrence Venuti, Continue reading