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10 Instances of Literary Censorship

By jake goldman

November 21, 2013

Censors: Shielding the youth of the world from curse words and genitals.

Headline v. Headline: Twitter Nazis

By Misha Grunbaum

October 22, 2012

Last week, tongues wagged as a neo-Nazi group's Twitter account was blocked in Germany and a wave of anti-Semitic tweets roiled France. Read More

Aaaand the Winner of the Nobel Lit 5000 is ... Mo Yan!

By Misha Grunbaum

October 12, 2012

Haruki Murakami, there's always next year.

This year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Mo Yan, a Chinese writer whose pen name — in English, "Don't Speak" — is a nod to the censorship under which he writes his books.

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