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    • Candide: The shocking passages
    • Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages
    • Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes
    • Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages
    • The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education
    • What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?
    • Why Italy banned Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms?
    • Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel
    • The Metamorphosis: The final scene is more disturbing than the first
    • Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves
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    • A Light in the Attic: Controversial poems
    • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?
    • Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on sex and date rape from Rome
    • A Farewell to Arms: All the dirty words you won’t find in the novel
    • The Jihadi Manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones
    • A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?
    • Roald Dahl’s The Witches: The paragraphs critics called sexist
    • Carrie: The bloody parts
    • The Sorrows of Young Werther: These passages inspired suicide
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    • Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery
    • Why Voltaire mocked Canada as ‘a few acres of snow’?
    • In Britain ‘it is good to kill an admiral from time to time’
    • When “flower children” spurred kids to abandon childhood
    • The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos
    • Building Utopia: The most important pre-Marx socialists
    • Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?
    • Women in 19th-century novels: Rebellious wives had to die!
    • O for objectification: When a woman allows men to use her
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Is it ever justified for a people to destroy their cultural heritage?


Is it ever justified for a people to destroy their cultural heritage?

How to deal with symbols of hate?

ARTICLE: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Posted on June 13, 2020April 15, 2021 by Zak Felix

How Roman Emperors viewed the Jewish people?


How Roman Emperors viewed the Jewish people?

The Roman Emperors in the lead-up to the destruction of Jerusalem

BOOK: THE BIBLE

Posted on May 18, 2020November 19, 2023 by Zak Felix

The racist myth of Japanese grinding human bones into gunpowder


The racist myth of Japanese grinding human bones into gunpowder

Its possible origins and why the founder of Futurism admired it

ARTICLE: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Posted on December 25, 2019February 27, 2022 by Zak Felix

Me, Inc.: Gene Simmons’ contrarian tips on success in life

Me, Inc.: Gene Simmons’ contrarian tips on success in life

KISS co-founder shares controversial advice in his book on how to become rich

BOOK: ME INC.

Posted on June 9, 2019September 27, 2021 by Zak Felix

White Niggers of America: A call to arms by a Quebec terrorist


White Niggers of America: A call to arms by a Quebec terrorist

Summary of the book by Pierre Vallières, one of the leaders of Front de libération du Québec. Read the controversial quotes

BOOK: WHITE NIGGERS OF AMERICA

Posted on February 2, 2019March 11, 2021 by Zak Felix

Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel


Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel

Why Philip Roth’s book is considered one of the dirtiest books ever published? He was also accused of Jewish self-hatred

BOOK: PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT

Posted on November 28, 2018February 20, 2022 by Zak Felix

Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves


Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves

Black Code: One of the earliest and most important legal documents on slavery in the West

BOOK: CODE NOIR

Posted on November 15, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery


Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery

Understanding Voltaire’s view on race and slavery through the eyes of Candide

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on December 5, 2017September 23, 2020 by Zak Felix

Candide: The shocking passages


Candide: The shocking passages

Condemned by the French government and the Catholic Church: Read the controversial passages from Voltaire’s Candide (1759)

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on December 1, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages


Of Mice and Men: The shocking passages

What makes John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men controversial?

BOOK: OF MICE AND MEN

Posted on October 13, 2017July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Banned Books

 Madame Bovary
 Candide
 Carrie
 Of Mice and Men
 The Giver
 A Wrinkle in Time
 The Communist Manifesto
 A Farewell to Arms
 The Art of Love
 Story of O
 Mahomet
 The Metamorphosis
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