Index looks at how South Africa, former Yugoslavia, eastern Europe and Latin America are trying to come to terms with past horrors.
Wounded nations, broken lives
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CATEGORY: Magazine
God is not dead
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine charts the return of religion as the most powerful force in contemporary politics.
USA: Art unleashed
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine offers arguments on the state of artistic freedom in the United States. The choice is yours.
New censors
In recognition of the International Publishers Association’s centenary congress, Index on Censorship magazine surveys the state of publishing worldwide.
Once and future shock
In this issue, Index uncovers the negligence and deceit that still surrounds the Chernobyl disaster ten years after the explosion.
The subversive eye
In this special edition, Index goes to the movies to celebrate the extraordinary power of film and the allure of the silver screen.
UN: Make or break
The dream of the United Nations has turned to nightmare on the Balkan battlefields, Index asks whether it’s time for the UN to hang up its blue beret.
The body politic
In this issue, Index examines the issues that lie at the heart of women’s continuing fight against social, cultural and political subjection.
Rewriting history
In this issue, Index examines the issues that lie at the heart of women’s continuing fight against social, cultural and political subjection.
Liberty in Britain, Death in the USA
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine examines free expression through the prism of transparency in Britain and the USA’s death penalty.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.