If the pen is mightier than the sword and those that wield ink more intelligent than those with their fingers on the red button, one has to stand back and take a long, hard look at the world.
From today's press:
Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (The Guardian)
Salman Rushdie speaks frankly to Johann Hari (The Independent)
Anna Politkovskaya's last, unfinished article is available to read here (The Independent), interrupted by her murder for telling the truth.