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Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Will No Longer Draw Mohammed
The surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who frequently drew Mohammed for the newspaper has announced he's retiring the character.
Salman Rushdie
Books
Salman Rushdie Says, “Art Is Not Entertainment ... It’s a Revolution”
During last night's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write event, writer Salman Rushie talked about the fact that censorship exists to change the subject. When it is introduced in the realm of art, it becomes the subject; the attack onto the work becomes the work. As Rushdie said, “Assumptions of guilt repl
Art
Book Spurning: The People's Library at OWS
When the NYPD — invasion-clad and riot-tooled — swiftly and forcibly dislodged protestors of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from their stronghold in Zuccotti Park on November 15 last year, they mangled and destroyed, among other things, the so-called “people’s” library, an impressive collection of