April 3rd, 2012
Robert McCrum considers Index’s role in the history of the fight for free speech, from the oppression of the Cold War to censorship online
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February 12th, 2010
Michael Scammell, founding editor of Index on Censorship, recalls the role of Stephen Spender in the birth of the magazine
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January 26th, 2010
Tuesday 16 February 1pm
Michael Scammell discusses his acclaimed biography of Arthur Koestler –– writer, journalist and author of Darkness at Noon, one of the finest political novels of the 20th century.
Koestler was witness to some of the major events of his day: a young communist who turned against Stalin after the first show trials, an early chronicler of Zionism, a prisoner during the Spanish Civil War, a refugee from Nazi Europe. Koestler was ahead of his time: an intellectual and visionary, whose novels, non-fiction and adventurous life story are a fascinating chronicle of the last century.
Michael Scammell is the award-winning author of Solzhenitsyn, A Biography. He has translated numerous books from Russian, including Nabokov’s The Defense. He is the founder and first editor of Index on Censorship and is a vice president of International PEN. He teaches at Columbia University.
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