Cuba silences foreign journalists
Cuba has ordered correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, BBC, and El Universal to stop reporting from the island, leaving the Sun-Sentinel the sole U.S. newspaper with a Cuba bureau.
Cuba has ordered correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, BBC, and El Universal to stop reporting from the island, leaving the Sun-Sentinel the sole U.S. newspaper with a Cuba bureau.
A New York Times Book Review editor revealed the publication’s secrets at Harvard last week. Gawker reports.
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J.M. Coetzee applauds the intelligence and passion of Hugo Claus’ poetry, “a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible.”
“The most honest tell you that they’ll pretty much publish anything if it shuts Bret Easton Ellis up.”