FTRW 2009 – Burn Before Reading: A Hot List of Banned Books

Here's an article about FTRW that appeared in Xtra.ca (“Where Queers Conspire”).  They asked various Canadian literary types and free speech proponents to give their thoughts on some common and/or recently challenged books. 

From the article's introduction:

Canada is a censorious country. Our nanny state bans most hate speech
(not the religious-based homophobic kind), stops erotica at the border
and may soon allow police to monitor all communication on the internet
— all to “protect” Canadians from reading, seeing and hearing material
that, somehow, will harm us. (Apparently the country's watchful agents
are able to view all this dangerous stuff without a problem.)

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