From book bans and blacklists to the denial of publishing support, the history of literature is full of writers who paid a high price for what they wrote or advocated publicly. The case of Sally Rooney opens an old, but still unpleasant question today: where does the application of the law stop, and punishment for opinions begins?
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From book bans and blacklists to the denial of publishing support, the history of literature is full of writers who paid a high price for what they wrote or advocated publicly. The case of Sally Rooney opens an old, but still unpleasant question today: where does the application of the law stop, and punishment for opinions begins?