The memoir of an imprisoned former Israeli Prime Minister has led to multiple police raids
Ehud Olmert has seen better days. The George W. Bush-painted former Prime Minister of Israel (he served the office from 2006 to 2009) is currently serving out a prison sentence for… Read more »
In Turkey, a suspected terrorist continues to operate a bookstore, as hundreds of journalists, authors, and publishers are rounded up
Since the failed coup against him in September 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken dramatic measures to consolidate his power: hunting down members of the opposition, calling for changes to… Read more »
Ecuadoran government fines journalists for what they didn’t say
While governments around the world have been known to crack down on journalists for covering stories that, in one way or another, threaten their authority, it’s rarer to hear about… Read more »
Breitbart, allegedly facing advertising woes, could become more insidious
Efforts to push companies to pull their advertising dollars from Breitbart seem to actually be working. In the past week, various reports have come out to indicate that the boycott… Read more »
Why censor environmental information when you can abolish it?
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s proposal to slash state spending by eliminating a self-funding magazine published by the state’s Department of Natural Resources is provoking calls of bullshit from former agency… Read more »
Ukrainian writer detained in Belarus
Last week, the prominent Ukrainian poet, novelist, and dissident Serhiy Zhadan was seized by government security forces in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, held overnight, and ordered to leave the country. As… Read more »
Without warning, Egyptian officials shutter Cairo center for torture victims
After a year of harassment by the Egyptian government, Cairo’s Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was shut down by authorities yesterday. The closure—executed by fifteen plainclothes… Read more »
Writers to #resist at AWP
If Peter Clark’s report on Winter Institute was any indication, the bookselling community is hardly feeling complacent in the face of the drastically shifting American political landscape. The same thing can… Read more »
Reuters publishes guidelines for reporting in the Trump era
As the media continues to grapple with how to cover a president who, whether he’s a media savant or not, manages to divert every ounce of their attention to himself,… Read more »
Trump is the worst kind of awkward
While Donald Trump’s reaction to a question posed by a BBC journalist during his press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May last Friday, and its alternate interpretations in the… Read more »