literature

Salman Rushdie warns that Left-wing ‘cancel culture’ is a threat to literature and freedom of speech

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Author Salman Rushdie warns that Left-wing ‘cancel culture’ is a threat to literature and freedom of speech Salman Rushdie warned Left-wing ‘cancel culture’ is threat to freedom of speech He said he could not accept there are ‘areas in which censorship is acceptable’  Author signed open letter in US magazine Harper’s, objecting to ‘cancel culture’ … Read more

No genre of literature offers a more colourful cast of characters than history

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On Saturday, Dominic Sandbrook — one of our most eminent historians — celebrated the joys of non-fiction by paying tribute to the authors of diaries. Today, he celebrates historians. Whether it’s Edward Gibbon’s magisterial dissection of the fall of the Roman Empire or Ian Kershaw’s devastating portrait of Hitler, these works show it is only … Read more