Farah accepted the Neustadt Prize at the University of Oklahoma in October 1998 / Photo by Gil JainToday (November 24) marks the seventy-fifth birthday of Somali writer Nuruddin Farah, recipient…

This will be our last roundup of literary news and fun finds until we return from the holiday break. Thank you for reading along with us this year.  We’ll see you in January, when we’ll be kicking of…

Demonstration for Raif Badawi outside the Embassy of Saudi-Arabia, Helsinki, Finland. Raif Badawi was named the 2015 International Writer of Courage this week. Photo by Amnesty International/Flickr.…

As Banned Books Week comes to a close, we shift our gaze upon the censorship of authors on an international scale. Below is a list of 17 books that have been banned in the last decade. The original ve…