The Age reports on Man Booker winner, Anne Enright’s remarks before leaving for a trip to mainland China. The Irish author was in Hong Kong for the Man International Literary Festival and planned to fly to Shanghai afterwards.
When asked to comment on China’s curbs on the freedom of expression, from banning books to jailing writers, [...]



The Monster of Florence

What follows is a letter from Douglas Preston, an American journalist and writer: Please read his story and blog about it.
Dear Friends and colleagues,
On April 7, my good friend and writing partner Mario Spezi, a well-known Italian journalist, was arrested and thrown into jail, in the worst abuse of state power I have ever seen [...]






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. . . both the saint and the poet exist through some propagation of destructive violence. In order to discover what is the centre of themselves, the saint has to destroy the world of evil, and the poet has to destroy the world of specious good. Wallace Fowlie

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