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Category Archives: Literary
The right’s war on Shakespeare
Cormac McCarthy
Martin Amis
RIP Martin Amis
Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead | CNN
In a tribute to his literary hero, John Avlon calls Martin Amis, who died last week, “an impossibly cool and erudite observer,” who “chronicled transatlantic culture from the rise of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan through 9/11 to the whiplash between Barack Obama and Donald Trump, in novels and e…
The evolution of comic books
How comic books changed from books for children to something with significantly more depth.
How Writers On LSD Changed Marvel Comics Forever
In the 1970s, a forgotten generation of comic book writers took the medium from schlocky superheroes to artful considerations of consciousness, identity, and selfhood. Their secret? Tapping into the counterculture.
A good idea
Rushdie and book banning
Rushdie has fought censorship since 1988. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania has banned 456 books. Let that sink in for a second: book banning is real.
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#blacklivesmatter
#metoomovement
Opinion: Salman Rushdie has risked his life for decades; US must stand up against censorship, too
The horrendous attack on Salman Rushdie, an author who has been a champion for free speech and intellectual freedom by putting his life on the line, should be a lesson to the people of his chosen country, writes Rafia Zakaria.
David McCullough
More on book banning
Banning books
Read the list of books that ignorant school boards and parents are trying to remove from reading lists and libraries. In some cases, the Trumpians have won and a particular book has been banned.
Note how they get around the word “banned” by using the word “removed” instead – all to “protect” their innocent, straight, white, Christian children from learning about something else other than their own “culture.” Oh, and sex is still bad. Absurd.
As a writer, I find that any attempt to ban or remove books because of their content or because you need to protect high school kids from reading To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply censorship by another name.
