At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song, talked about dystopian fiction, being inspired by cinema, his native Ireland’s break with Catholicism, and the need for art to be free
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Article: What Is Feared When White America Bans Books? - This is an article about my experience with books, libraries and the co-founder of Moms for Liberty visit to the Joy Reid show.
Article: What Is Feared When White America Bans Books? - This is an article about my experience with books, libraries and the co-founder of Moms for Liberty visit to the Joy Reid show.
C.S. Lewis observed that every age suffers from its own blindness — failing to recognize perspectives that will be obvious to succeeding generations. To overcome such blindness, he writes, “the only palliative is to keep the clean breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.” The same internet and digital technologies which provide widespread access to humanity’s literary treasures, however, can ironically distract us from reading with depth — as we’re drawn into the latest news or the day’s social media posts.