While fiction and writing have little to contribute to the immediate cure for our pandemic, in this conversation Ken Liu affirms storytelling’s place in developing the ethical contours of vaccine distribution. Indeed, you cannot put a good story in a syringe, but the humanities have a lot to offer regarding who, how, and when we get those needles in our arms. Liu developed the idea of stories being the transmitters of our values much more in this essay.
Argentina took a historic step last night when its senate voted to legalize abortion. Here is Buenos Aires’s daily Clarín giving the news. The Catholic church resisted the measure, with the Argentine-born Pope even tweeting his opposition. The final debate lasted many hours, and the vote was not taken until 4:00am. Despite the hour, there was a large, green-colored crowd that celebrated outside.
Written by Kaya Genç, here is a nice profile of Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan. He has been in prison since 2018, essentially for, and I quote the article here: ‘“sending subliminal messages’ to topple Turkey strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan”. This was not Altan’s first encounter with censorship. As far back as the 1980s, a court found a previous novel “obscene” and it was ordered burnt.
Argentina took a historic step last night when its senate voted to legalize abortion. Here is Buenos Aires’s daily Clarín giving the news. The Catholic church resisted the measure, with the Argentine-born Pope even tweeting his opposition. The final debate lasted many hours, and the vote was not taken until 4:00am. Despite the hour, there was a large, green-colored crowd that celebrated outside.
Written by Kaya Genç, here is a nice profile of Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan. He has been in prison since 2018, essentially for, and I quote the article here: ‘“sending subliminal messages’ to topple Turkey strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan”. This was not Altan’s first encounter with censorship. As far back as the 1980s, a court found a previous novel “obscene” and it was ordered burnt.
