January 2011
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Weekly Roundup: awards, silence enforced and...
Authorities have initiated a widespread media blackout in Egypt: “Security forces are also becoming increasingly violent against both demonstrators and journalists.”
Doug Liman directs a production of Reckoning with Torture at the Sundance Film Festival this Saturday, featuring Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, George Saunders, Esmeralda Santiago, and others.
Four of works on the 2011 Best Translated...
“If you believe God’s divine judgment and you countenance reincarnation, then it...”
– E.L. Doctorow reading from his novel City of God at PEN’s benefit for the Belarus Free Theater
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“You leave broken, physically broken, psychologically broken—wretched.”
– Omar Deghayes, Guantanamo detainee for 6 years
“We don’t torture people. Let me say that again to you, we don’t torture...”
– George Tenet
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