Prisoners’ Right to Read
This guide helps you understand prisoners’ right to read, and how you can send books to inmates.
Tag: reading
A Season In Hell
In April 2006 Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Canadian-Iranian scholar and philosopher, was arrested in Tehran and spent the next four months in Evin Prison, answering questions about his alleged role in a “soft overthrow” of the government.
Opening Night of the Toronto Spur Festival is Now Online
Video recap and liveblog of PEN Canada’s “Future of the Book” event with Paul Holdengräber and Hugh McGuire at Spur Festival Toronto.
Reinventing the Book – A Q&A with Hugh McGuire
Books have never been individual pursuits. There are editors and put-upon friends, colleagues, trusted advisors, agents, mothers and fathers, workshoppers, copyeditors, proofreaders, designers … all of whom influence what book is finally published. No writer is an island.
The Future of the Book: Paul Holdengräber and Hugh McGuire in Conversation
As the future of the written word shifts from static pages to animated screens, readers, publishers, and writers alike have begun to consider the same fundamental question: what is the future of the book?
Bear – A Defence of Reading
I am an enemy to the concept of “inappropriate” as here described, because it is a veiled form of an uglier – less “appropriate” – term, namely censorship
Hello, Cruel World – A Defence of Reading
A new category of books was established – Not For You. I pretended to respect this designation, but in fact read them on the sly whenever I had a chance.