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Little Cash, Lots Of Censorship

Bothayna Al-Essa | LitHub | 3rd April 2024

Wry reflections on ten years of running a bookshop in Kuwait, which is more of "a romanticised journey of self-destruction" than a commercial venture. The "ogre of censorship with its thousands of arms", which is "arbitrary and irrational", has only become more aggressive. Books like One Hundred Years of Solitude and some translations of Nineteen Eighty-Four are now prohibited (1,300 words)

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Dark Matter

Meg Bernhard | Hazlitt | 3rd April 2024

Profile of Frank Warren, who in 2004, while working in a monotonous job at a medical document delivery business, started collecting secrets from strangers. He initially handed out 3,000 self-addressed postcards in the street and kept doing it as the anonymous responses flooded back. Now, he has over a million and is perpetually curating them. He doesn't throw them away (6,000 words)

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