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10 Instances of Literary Censorship
10 Instances of Literary Censorship
By jake goldman
November 21, 2013

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

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Headline v. Headline: Twitter Nazis
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!
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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