Index's top ten picks from the archive

"The finest writers of the 20th century all wrote for Index on Censorship in the fight for freedom of expression. The selection of ten of the most outstanding pieces to be published in Index includes plays, essays and reportage - from the publication of Solzhenitsyn’s poetry for the first time in English to an interview with celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei."
Jo Glanville, Editor, Index on Censorship

God Keep Me From Going Mad
1972
The Writer in Latin America
1978
The Sin of Power
1978
Mistake, for Samuel Beckett
1984
Catatastrophe, for Václav Havel
1984
Under the Iron Hell
1991
The Measure of Freedom
1996
Standing Alone
2002
Truth to Power
2008
A Licence to Write
2010