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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/end-cambodia-daily-strongman-can-shut-newspaper-cant-shut-reporter/"></div><p>The last issue of the <em>Cambodia Daily</em> — “News Without Fear or Favor” — appeared September 4 with the headline: “Descent Into Outright Dictatorship” and a photograph of government opposition leader Kem Sokha in handcuffs and the grip of a policeman. Kem Sokha looks disgusted. The newspaper sold rapidly, people massed to get their copies all over the streets of Phnom Penh. And then there were none. Kem Sokha is locked up in a high security prison in an eastern province of the country. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/end-cambodia-daily-strongman-can-shut-newspaper-cant-shut-reporter/#more-5235" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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The end of The Cambodia Daily: A Strongman Can Shut a Newspaper but Can’t Shut Up a Reporter

Alice + Freda Together

<h4 style="text-align: left;">Susannah Luthi has worked as a reporter, editor, freelance writer, and communications guru for arts nonprofits.  She is the co-founder of Connu, a new platform connecting important emerging writers to readers.</h4>

Susannah Luthi

Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">— Dr. Seuss</p>

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Off Course

Into the Woods: Adulthood and Adultery in Michelle Huneven’s Off Course

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes

Literary Fiction

Casebook

I Spy: Unraveling the Secrets of Adulthood

The Circle

Brainwash, Condition, Repeat: Dave Eggers's "The Circle"

Susannah Luthi has worked as a reporter, editor, freelance writer, and communications guru for arts nonprofits.  She is the co-founder of Connu, a new platform connecting important emerging writers to readers.