Tag: problematic books

No, We Shouldn’t Cancel Problematic Classics

By Emily on June 7, 2022January 8, 2023

It’s hard to escape problematic classics. Like it or not, literature has been and always will be steeped in the zeitgeist in which it was written.

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The Problem With “Problematic” | The Book Community’s Perpetual Witch Hunt

By Emily on April 19, 2022March 13, 2023

Welcome back to another post in which I use my cancel-proof irrelevance to dive into another example of well-intentioned-things-gone-off-the-rails in the book community.

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