The 2023 Freedom to Write Index records the most jailed writers globally since the Index launched 5 years ago: 339 writers from 33 countries jailed in 2023, that's 101 more than in 2019.
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Andrew Scull critiques the cultural influence of Peter Kramer’s 1993 book “Listening t
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Books considered in the essay: The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz and Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience by Ato Sekyi-Otu
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These philosophical and thought-provoking fantasy novels will leave you thinking about identity, ethics, freedom, reality, and more.
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‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’
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The spoken word artist and podcaster’s hybrid of social history and rallying cry is heartfelt, if occasionally hectoring
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The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing
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The veteran music journalist’s personal study of the German film-maker wins £10,000 honour for the year’s best literary evocation of place
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Through writing about her sister Liliana’s murder 30 years ago, the author found a community of those whose female friends and family members had also been killed. Yet the authorities still fail to act
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The books reviewed are, among other books and authors discussed:
How to Think like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna. Grove, 296 pp., £9.99, March, 978 1 80471 002 9 The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy edited by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. Routledge, 638 pp., £215, June 2023, 978 1 138 21275 6 |
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The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Looking for a work of science fiction that will make you really think? Welcome to these philosophical sci-fi books!
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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Things by Peter Watts
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Hear from legendary storyteller Alan Moore about his unique approach to writing and his take on what every writer should consider at the start of their journey. Timestamps: 00:10 – Develop your moral platform 4:11 – Writing and magic Useful links: See Alan Moore’s BBC Maestro course on Storytelling here - https://bbcm.co/3U9iErs Find out more: From fiction writing and poetry to screenwriting and songwriting, see our collection of writing courses - https://bbcm.co/3U9EtY3
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Ellie Eberlee reflects on a momentous loss for the international literary community, and for the world a
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‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’ Alice Munro in Granta 118: Exit Stategies.
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Listen to OurShelves with Stella Duffy from Ourshelves. How can we write a life unexpected?Author of seventeen novels, fourteen plays, theatre-maker, co-director of Fun Palaces and Stonewall writer of the year Stella Duffy OBE is an inspiration of hard-won wisdom and appetite for learning new things. She joins Lucy Scholes for a conversation about living without children in a pro-natalist society, how existentialism and yoga inform her writing and the time she met Patricia Highsmith - as well as why Bridgerton is brilliant.
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Author of seventeen novels, fourteen plays, theatre-maker, co-director of Fun Palaces and Stonewall writer of the year Stella Duffy OBE is an inspiration of hard-won wisdom and appetite for learning new things.
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Vibrant essays from the author of The Argonauts touch on art, inspiration, and many of the central dilemmas of our times
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Daphne du Maurier is a consummate storyteller, twisting our assumptions and emotions with complete control, and creating a sense of place and atmosphere so potent and visceral we almost believe that we, too, have travelled down that winding drive to Manderley… Whether you want to lose yourself in the shadows of an unreliable narrator, slip from the 60s to medieval Cornwall, fall for a defiant heroine or be haunted by an apocalyptic vision of nature – there’s a du Maurier for everyone.
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Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women
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