In Focus

Visitors look at a replica of the Parthenon erected in Kassel, Germany, built from donated copies of books that have faced censorship

CREDIT: Boris Roessler/AFP/Getty

IN THIS SECTION

China’s other great wall madeleine thien 58

The award-winning Canadian author on why Charter 08 is so important today

Closing access to the back door iona craig 60

An award-winning journalist explains why encrypted messaging is crucial

“No one owns language” jemimah steinfeld 64

Index’s deputy editor meets 2016 Man Booker winner Paul Beatty

Risky business charlotte bailey 66

A Libyan bookseller on the dangers, old and new, to face his Tripoli stores

Tracking down the F word in fiction mahesh rao, sean gallagher, kieran etoria-king, grainne maguire, ryan mcchrystal 69

Index staff and friends review novels that inspired their belief in free expression

Costume drama amie ferris-rotman 72

Orthodox activists called for God to forbid a new film about the last tsar

Bulldozing his way through the media natasha Joseph 75

Tanzania’s president promised to tackle corruption, but often targets journalists

Big brother we’re watching you jason daponte 78

A new tech collective aims to level the political playing field with digital tools

Making a killing duncan tucker 81

A special investigation into five years of Mexican journalists being murdered at record rates

New tribal instinct peter bazalgette  87

Infinite communication should have brought society closer, but instead it appears to be driving us apart