Huck Finn censored, the NYT Book Review just shrugs
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“The interviews have been getting less in-depth and now play basically like ad spots with the more interesting questions ignored, EVEN when they are raised in the course of the interview. No time for intelligence, here.
But more importantly, any literary review that can countenance the censoring of Huck Finn while barely blinking, and treating objections to this appalling trend as if they are merely idle talk 'on the internet' has clearly lost the plot of literature as a whole, and doesn't deserve the bits it's syndicated on. Much as the NYT newspaper itself is a pale shadow of its former investigative self, it seems the book reviewers also have lost their taste for telling truth to power. Such is perhaps par for the course in America now, but I don't have to listen to it.
The New York Times Book Review doesn't take freedom of speech seriously and that's no last bastion of literature at all -- it's a fading footnote, best forgotten. It seems it falls to the new media critics to carry the torch of freedom for authors like Mark Twain. We value the history and integrity of your medium more than you do yourselves. That's embarrassing for you -- you should be ashamed.”Read full review »
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Canada ·
01/29/11
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10/16/12
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Canada ·
10/02/07
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