“Herta Mueller, the 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says the choice to give this year’s award to Mo Yan is a ‘catastrophe’ that never should have happened, and accuses the Chinese writer of praising the Asian country’s tough censorship laws.”
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Is New Zealand’s Government Now A Hollywood Offshoot?
“For better or worse, Mr. Key’s government has taken extreme measures that have linked its fortunes to some of Hollywood’s biggest pictures, making this country of 4.4 million people, slightly more than the city of Los Angeles, a grand experiment in the fusion of film and government.”
Will Immersive Reading Save Publishers But Kill The Traditional Novel?
“The buggy whip industry did not disappear overnight. But certainly many a tanner looked at the sputtering fruit of Henry Ford’s assembly line and began to lament the passing of the old ways.”