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UAE's insistence on Hedges' guilt sustains Emirates Lit Fest boycott

Jailed academic Matthew Hedges, whose life sentence for spying provoked the withdrawal of several authors from Dubai's Emirates Festival of Literature, has been pardoned. Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Memoir written from a Turkish prison cell to Granta Books

Granta Books is to publish I Will Never See the World Again, the "profoundly moving" memoir of Ahmet Altan, written from the jail in which he is serving a life sentence. Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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My problem with Fire and Fury? The sucking-up that’s left out of it | Emma Brockes

Michael Wolff paints a vivid portrait of the Trump administration’s dysfunction. But he is less forthcoming about his own duplicityMichael Wolff, author of the White House expose Fire and Fury, has been subject to a lot of comparisons this week – mostly to his own target, Donald Trump. How... Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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