Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent ......
Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping-the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type-fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of this technology in the United States. The ......
David Horton was born in 1945 and grew up in Perth WA. He graduated from UWA with Zoology Honours in 1965 aged twenty then had a disastrous year at University of Melbourne six good years at University of New England an unhappy year in York England and then twenty-four very mixed years at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ......
From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914-2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915-1968) became friends. The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton capture their personal and professional relationship, extending from the time of ......
Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers' demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work ......
Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers' demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work ......
Football is both a beautiful game and an ugly game, all depending on where you are standing. Ask two football fans their verdict on a match and you will get at least three opinions. And interestingly, football is also often a lens through which a nation reveals itself. Hence, in this issue we look at the state of free expression across the world, ......
