The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

The presumed fight for free speech has become a masterclass in silencing. Politicians champion the First Amendment while ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

The first known banned book was Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan," a book published in 1637 that was banned by the Puritan ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War ...

The maker of the critically acclaimed film ‘Joram’, on ‘Bewilderness’, his debut poetry collection and how different streams ...

Taiwanese continued to be arrested for speaking out against the policy or reading illegal books, but publishers always found ...

Yet I suspect that those who boycott Israeli cultural institutions do feel it is a betrayal to read Israeli poetry. Self-imposed censorship destroys the chances for peace. Self-imposed censorship ...

In the wake of the controversy surrounding Creative Australia’s withdrawal of support for its chosen artists for the Venice ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

Within a week of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia introduced war censorship laws making anti-war protests or sharing information about the ...

Things get awry when the government joins the bandwagon, providing political legitimacy to the professionally offended. Worse ...