With a New York Times front page story and two minutes of laughter with John Oliver, Hungary rose to fleeting mass media fame, thanks to the Hungarian government’s plan to introduce a special tax on Internet traffic.
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In Sridala Swami’s second poetry collection, the speaker attempts to navigate the constraints of the bodied self: death and the decay of age, the fragile nature of love and relationships, and the imposition of national borders.
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Cartoonist Alfredo Martirena on the 43 missing students in Guerrero, Mexico.
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Cartoonist Eray Özbek on Argentina’s request for the extradition of 20 Franco-era officials from Spain.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we talk to Iranian novelist Yaghoub Yadali about his newly translated novel Rituals of Restlessness.
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More from Freedom Chat interviewee Naser Selmani, president of the Association of Macedonian Journalists.
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Cartoonist Miguel Villalba Sánchez on the US State Department cutting funding to investigate war crimes by Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.
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An interview by Global Voices with a member of March Lebanon about the Virtual Museum of Censorship.
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Cartoonist Marian Kamensky on Hungary’s “bad boy” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had recently pushed for the adoption of an internet tax.
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International recognition of Iranian cinema is, to a great extent, indebted to the efforts of the independent filmmakers who face painfully imposed limitations on their work.
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