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Crime Fiction is Not Low-Brow

The high-brow/low-brow debate – no longer limited to the confines of literature – has now proliferated across popular culture and become increasingly commonplace. We have all been there and done that, haven’t we? Many of us have secretly (and perhaps unconsciously) reprimanded individuals, holding their literary tastes against them. We have looked down on specific […]

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James Bond and the Dangers of Literary Censorship

We live in an era of literary rewriting.  Following the news that Roald Dahl’s works are being rewritten to remove offensive language (which we covered in The Student), James Bond is the next target.  Major news outlets have revealed that Ian Fleming’s novels are to be reissued with many potentially offensive lines removed. Once again, […]