Günter Grass and BBC World Have Your Say
Gunter Grass. Copyright: Das blaue Sofa / Club Bertelsmann, Wikimedia Commons Last week, the Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, probably Germany’s most famous living author, published a poem (German original...
View ArticleHit Günter Grass with Poetry, Not a Travel Ban
Another piece on Günter Grass and his poem, this time for Comment is Free. On Sunday, the controversy surrounding Günter Grass’s poem Was Gesagt Werden Muss (What Must Be Said) escalated, with Israeli...
View ArticleComments on Comment is Free: Gunter Grass
When I do a post for Comment is Free, I like to do a round-up here of pertinent and impertinent comments that appear below it. My piece on Gunter Grass pulled in 298 comments, which is a record for me,...
View ArticleHow Effective Are Free Speech Campaigns?
First posted over at the English PEN site. In her monthly column for MediaShift, Jillian York (Director of International Free Expression at the EFF, and a Global Voices board member) turned her...
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