The ‘dangerous’ books too powerful to read.

Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning.

https://apple.news/AJG5i-0B-SeelVXjRdd-aFQ

 

Elizabeth Strout on What It’s Like to Write After Exiting Obscurity

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

https://lithub.com/elizabeth-strout-on-what-its-like-to-write-after-exiting-obscurity/

 

Command by Lawrence Freedman review – inside the war room

From Korea to Ukraine, a brilliant study of the politics and personalities that drive modern conflicts (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/17/command-by-lawrence-freedman-review-inside-the-war-room?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

If a book is banned, then read it. A new idea is a terrible thing to waste (from the ‘Miami Herald’):

https://apple.news/AVtE1bwMfT5iwRRzk3K0fww