City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will be hosting a series of readings during May. Writers include: Jean Kwok, Gary Shteyngart, Herve Le Tellier, Kyung-Sook Shin and David Bezmozgis.
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According to Committee to Protect Journalist, 16 Journalists have been killed in 2011 as of today in direct reprisal for their work. Here are their names and bios.
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Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation, will be reading for City of Asylum/Pittsburgh in May 2011 on her whirlwind international book tour. Her debut novel is a coming-of-age story about Kimberly Chang, a Chinese immigrant …
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In this video, Christos Tsiolkas reads an excerpt from his novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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In this interview, novelist Madeleine Thien talks to Khet Mar about her interest in Asia, the importance of freedom of speech and the Writers in Motion tour.
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Chinese hackers have attacked Change.org, the site hosting a petition in support of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. I personally signed the petition one week ago, and this is the email that the Change.org sent to me and other signers today.
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Ai Weiwei was scheduled to visit Pittsburgh in May. His installation “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” is set to open at The Warhol Museum in 2012. Eric Shiner, The Warhol’s Acting Director, talked to SW about Ai Weiwei, the installation, and the artist’s relationship to Andy Warhol.
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Just before Iran, Burma ranked second to last in Internet freedom in a report called Freedom on the Net 2011, released on Monday by information watchdog Freedom House.
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Here Vicente García Groyón talks to Khet Mar about decades of censorship against journalists in the Philippines and his passion for non-fiction writing and film scripts, among other topics.
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Sponsored by Reporters without Borders, IraNeda is a participative, independent satellite TV station launched by fifteen leading members of the Iranian diaspora, including several journalists, to combat news censorship in Iran.
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Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
Sampsonia Way presents Cartoonists Rights Network International, a cartoon-focused human rights organization, along with several of its affiliates and their work. READ
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