“La relación entre distintas generaciones literarias responde muchas a veces a un movimiento pendular: la nueva generación se mueve hacia el extremo opuesto de las posiciones estéticas, y a veces políticas, de donde se ubicaba la generación anterior.”
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Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how literary trends in Latin American countries are often a backlash against the trends that precede them.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan who has been criticized for his cooperation with China’s government and for advocating censorship.
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno analyses Venezuela’s recent presidential election and compares the strategies of Chávez and Capriles.
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In this week’s From Egypt, a man crippled from his involvement in the Egyptian revolution struggles to walk through Tahrir Square.
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In this week’s From Egypt, a man crippled from his involvement in the Egyptian revolution struggles to walk through Tahrir Square.
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In this exclusive interview, Pittsburgh writer Chuck Kinder talks about the Pittsburgh literary scene, his own writing process, and other Pittsburgh writers.
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Exiled journalist Mesfin Negash writes a letter to Kaliti, one of Ethiopia’s most notorious prisons, and asks if it can ever be redeemed.
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Artist Min Ko Naing has spent almost 20 of his 50 years in prison for his work as an activist and writer. The poet Khet Mar talks about sending books to him in prison and how he feels about the new Burma.
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Artist Min Ko Naing has spent almost 20 of his 50 years in prison for his work as an activist and writer. Khet Mar talks about sending books to him in prison and how he feels about the new Burma.
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