Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s prizewinning The Colonel, previously banned in his native Iran, may finally see print there in a sign of that nation’s continuing cultural thaw. As reported by the Tehran… Read more »

If you’ve ever experienced a powerful sense of dread while checking your bank balance after a night of drinking, this might make you feel better.
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Farah Samti at Tunisia Live reports that rather than being wiped out, literary censorship has ‘simply changed forms’ since the country’s revolution. Before, books seen as harmful to the regime… Read more »

There’s a cautionary tale this week from India, which has been experiencing a publishing boom for a decade now. As detailed in this Spectator report of late last year: …… 1 / Read more »