Over 200 Indian writers, including Arundhati Roy, banded together, appealing to voters to vote against hate politics in the election.
Britain's decision to leave the EU has seen fiction writers respond with an increasing array of Brexit-infused work.
Print's not dead, nor is feminism, as the two go hand in hand for International Women’s Day in the form of a pop-up bookstore which stocks books with women-only writers.
"The theme of the museum is to really look at American writing and American writers, and celebrate them in the way that we celebrate all kinds of people, like sports heroes and movie stars."
Nadine Gordimer was first a writer of fiction and a defender of creativity and expression. But as a white South African who hated apartheid's dehumanization of blacks, she was also a determined political activist in the struggle to end white minority rule in her country.