Why Is Britain Censoring Classic Novels?
<p>Few images evoke tyranny quite so well as the sight of books burning. From Nazi Germany to Communist China during the Cultural Revolution, it’s well etched into our collective consciousness that book-burning is a special kind of evil —a declaration of war against truth and art, and the most obvious example of censorship.</p>
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<p>Governments still burn books. The US military has burned plenty of Bibles in Afghanistan (fascinating story, incidentally) since 2009, and local officials in China were burning unapproved books as recently as 2019.</p>
<p>But I think we should also be concerned about a softer, smarter, and less top-down form of book censorship: trying to make old authors sound nicer than they really were. It has recently emerged as a real problem in the British cultural landscape, and led to a scandal over the books that got me into reading: the books of Roald Dahl.</p>
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