It seems that Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (author of Havana Real) really has the Cuban government spooked. What began recently with a leaked video of a Cuban cyber intelligence expert explaining… Read more »
Next month Melville House will publish Is Journalism Worth Dying For? by Anna Politkovskaya. In many ways this is bittersweet for us. On the one hand, we couldn’t be more… Read more »
Last week, in a ceremony that took place on International Women’s Day at the State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama honored this year’s recipients… Read more »
Predictably, the Castro regime in Cuba is a little bit scared of the various revolutions engulfing the Middle East. According to this Fox News report by Serafin Gomez, the Cuban… 8 / Read more »
The case of Wael Ghonim is an instructive example of just how much internet-savvy democracy activists are putting on the line for change. Ghonim, the Google engineer who helped organize… Read more »
Despite being declared by William Butler Yeats to be “Ireland’s Chekhov, “Since his death in 1966, a respectful forgetting has settled over Frank O’Connor,” observes Julian Barnes. In an analytic… Read more »
January 25 was the birthday of the great Scottish bard Robert Burns. But, as Kristy Scott reports in a Guardian story, Alloway, “the small thatched cottage where Burns was born… Read more »