Roald Dahl's books should not be edited, says Wes Anderson
In the wake of row over edits to famous author's work, the American director insists no one but the writer should be modifying books
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In the wake of row over edits to famous author's work, the American director insists no one but the writer should be modifying books
Yes – make sure books in schools are age-appropriate. Yes – make sure parents are aware of what is there. But no – don’t ban, censor, whitewash or outlaw books just because you don’t like the ideas in them, writes Ted Diadiun in his column today.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
In 1807, Thomas Bowdler and his sister, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, published The Family Shakespeare, which stripped away anything bawdy. For the next 200 years, the word “bowdlerize” was a [...]
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