Freedom of Expression?

by Abir

Begging my colleagues' indulgence, I'm going to stray from this week's topic and talk about some important issues that have been making news in the literary world this week.

A week may be a long time in politics, and three days it seems can be seismic in the world of crime fiction.

 

On Monday night, I was fortunate enough to be attending the British Book Awards in London. The highlight of the night was an appearance, via videolink, by Sir Salman Rushdie to accept the Freedom to Publish Awar...