Index on Censorship is an award-winning quarterly magazine, featuring reportage, analysis and new creative writing from around the world. It has contributing editors worldwide. It was founded in 1972 to publish the untold stories of dissidents behind the Iron Curtain. Over the years Index magazine has published some of the greatest names in literature including Nadine Gordimer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Samuel Beckett and Kurt Vonnegut. It also has published some of the greatest campaigning writers of our age from Vaclav Havel to Aung San Suu Kyi.

Latest issue

The summer 2021 issue of Index on Censorship focusses on the importance of whistleblowers to our democracies. Inside, you can read about the case of Reality Winner, the US intelligence analyst recently released from prison, but still unable to speak out, as well as an interview with playwright Tom Stoppard.