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‘The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.’
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author Dame Iris Murdoch was born on this day in 1919, we delved back into the Rare Book Review archives and retrieved this article, originally published in July 2003. Iris Murdoch’s library is currently filling up the bulk of the...
Adam Blakeney writes –
‘I sometimes equate Graham Greene with milk, truly! And I’m not talking about oat milk either.
With the 2022 PGA Championship looming large on the fairway it seemed like a good time to revisit a Golfing feature from the Rare Book Review archive...
The banning of books by dissident authors in repressive regimes such as Stalinist Russia is well-documented, but here are some titles you might not have realised were also banned – in some cases, much closer to home.
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book lover, in possession of an enquiring mind, must be in want of a collection’ (to paraphrase Jane Austen).
‘A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.’
Ursula K. Le Guin
