A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
If there's one thing that's certain about Wynn-Williams's highly personal, often scathing narrative: it's going to make a blockbuster movie.
Most often, what these censorious online voices demonstrate is not moral rectitude but a complete inability to understand how to read fiction.
If a billionaire is in a position to dictate how the media does its job, there is no free press to speak of.
Joyce's novel is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Barbara Kay took to the pages of the National Post to complain about the government having "wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel."
As we are witnessing on a global scale, it is all too easy to lose the essential freedoms we in a democratic society take for granted.
Moral certitude makes for strange bedfellows.
Ives distinguishes between the absolutism of Immanuel Kant and the more pragmatic views of John Stuart Mill.
If the First Amendment provides protection for every artistic endeavour except rap music, it then becomes impossible not to see this Constitutional provision as a racist instrument.
Public support for booksellers who are outspoken about their advocacy for LGBTQ+ individuals and communities seems strong.