This past March, a large black flag was raised over the Manhattan HQ of the public arts institution Creative Time. Fluttering in the wind, one might have caught sight of… Read more »

As a library patron, the right to privacy is a hugely important one, and when violations of that privacy become public, librarians tend to get pretty angry. And they’ve had cause… Read more »

Amazon employees heading into work at the Seattle office will find something new on their route these days: a 48-foot billboard with the words “What’s the CIA Doing on Amazon’s… Read more »

No, it’s not a joke. German politicians are so frustrated with revelations of wiretapping and surveillance by the United States that are thinking about going back to using typewriters for… Read more »

Melissa Morrone, a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, helps patrons navigate the internet safely and securely every day. In an essay for Waging Nonviolence, she describes how digital information… Read more »

PEN America recently finished a 62 day Surveillance Metaphor Mapping Project, tracking the language that journalists use most often to describe government surveillance. They looked at 133 articles, by 105… Read more »

Authors from across the world have signed a petition condemning state surveillance like that carried out by the NSA, as revealed by Edward Snowden earlier this year. Their petition, which… Read more »

Recently released documents have revealed that the FBI and the US State Department closely monitored the activity of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whom they regarded as a communist and… Read more »

Nineteen Eighty-Four first came out 64 years ago this week, and thanks to the NSA, George Orwell’s dystopian novel is doing better than ever. Sales on Amazon have risen by more than… Read more »

Over at the Literary Saloon Michael Orthofer discusses the secrecy with which the Nobel committee must read over the works that have been nominated, lest the names of those under consideration… Read more »