Among the books I’ve been most humbled to contribute to in some small way, our collection of essays by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Is Journalism Worth Dying For?, is surely… Read more »

There is a hotel in Spain that is designed around Italo Calvino’s celebrated Invisible Cities, which sounds remarkably appealing so long as one of the themed rooms is not in… Read more »

The status of books and the people that write them as arbiters of dissent appears to be holding strong. As MobyLives wrote yesterday, the London Book Fair has attracted controversy… Read more »

The Seattle Times ran a front page profile on Monday about a prolific writer whose stories are studied in college programs across the country. Junot Diaz has praised these stories… 1 / Read more »

Just over a month before the election in Iran, the world’s media is beginning to weigh in on a fresh wave of arrests of bloggers, journalists and web users in… Read more »

Razan Ghazzawi, a 31-year-old Syrian blogger, was arrested and charged with “trying to incite sectarian strife” earlier this week, which could result in a 15-year prison sentence for the U.S.-born… 1 / Read more »

Yesterday The Irrawaddy published Dyah Paramita’s interview with Andreas Harsono, an Indonesian writer who specializes in the increasingly rare craft of long form journalism. The pair discussed human rights, the… Read more »

The Houston Chronicle reported last week that the Mexican drug cartel Zetas killed and beheaded a blogger in Nuevo Laredo, a city “all but” controlled by the violent gang. The blogger… Read more »

Al Jazeera English covered the bombing last week of the offices of the satirical French weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Fingers are pointing to Islamic radicals, since the paper recently published… Read more »

In John Self’s latest missive in the Guardian, he discusses the idea of “an easy read,” which is defined as a book that is “not too hard going.” But what… 2 / Read more »