Bloggers, journalists and web users arrested in Iran
Ellie Robins
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 »
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 »
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer got in a heated argument with President Barack Obama over her book yesterday when she greeted him upon his arrival at the Phoenix airport. According to a… 2 / Read more »
In a waaaay too long essay (in English) for the Russian government newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Vladimir Putin declares that he wants to establish a “Russian Canon” of 100 books that—as a summary… 1 / Read more »
“At least half-a-dozen court cases have been filed against four authors and three organisers of the Jaipur Literature Festival where extracts from Salman Rushdie’s banned book The Satanic Verses were… 3 / Read more »
It’s almost impossible to resist peeking at a friend’s bookshelf when we’re invited into their home. But this sentiment becomes a little scarier when it isn’t a welcome guest snooping… Read more »
What’s in a name? If the Best American Poetry blog is to be believed, the key to success in the presidential elections. In 2008 the blog proposed a ‘Trochaic Theory’,… Read more »
The Obamas, a new book about guess who written by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor has generated a “scathing” response from the White House because it “includes plenty of… Read more »
The burning of the ancient Royal Library at Alexandria ranks among history’s greatest tragedies and depending on the era and bias of the historian “recording” its loss, blame has been… Read more »
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In a story reminiscent of George W. Bush’s mental pyrotechnics, Enrique Peña Nieto, the front-runner in Mexico’s Presidential race “stumbled in a high-profile way at a world-class book festival over… 2 / Read more »