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    • Candide: The shocking passages
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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  • Uncensored!
    • 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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  • Banned Books
    • 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
    • Controversial Topics (View all)
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Evolution of Jihad: Timeline of Islamic Terrorism with Photos

The last three decades we have witnessed Islamist terrorists attack civlians for their agenda. What are the historical roots of the rage that twists someone’s…

Posted on March 7, 2020December 1, 2020 by Zak Felix

Why Mafarka is one of the most misogynist novels ever written?


Why Mafarka is one of the most misogynist novels ever written?

Not welcome as mothers or lovers!

BOOK: MAFARKA THE FUTURIST

Posted on March 3, 2020September 27, 2021 by Zak Felix

The 1970 separatist manifesto by FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front) – Full Text


The 1970 separatist manifesto by FLQ (Quebec Liberation Front) – Full Text

The most important text by the militant Marxist movement of Canada

ARTICLE: THE FLQ MANIFESTO

Posted on February 11, 2020September 13, 2020 by Zak Felix

Mafarka: Summary & analysis plus the controversial passages


Mafarka: Summary & analysis plus all the controversial passages

Read the obscene parts of the first two chapters that sent the Italian author to court

BOOK: MAFARKA THE FUTURIST

Posted on February 3, 2020November 27, 2020 by Zak Felix

Erasing history: Iconic photos of eight types of iconoclasm


Erasing history: Iconic photos of eight types of iconoclasm

The motives of iconoclasm range from politics, religion, war, vengeance to art

ARTICLE: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Posted on November 15, 2019April 3, 2022 by Zak Felix

Milestones: The jihadi manifesto in 10 photos


Milestones: The jihadi manifesto in 10 photos

Photos show how a 1964 text laid the foundations of Islamic terrorism

BOOK: MILESTONES

Posted on October 16, 2019July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

‘Destroy museums!’–Why an Italian waged war against the past


‘Destroy museums!’–Why an Italian waged war against the past

Those who embraced state-sponsored iconoclasm as a fast track to modernization

ARTICLE: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Posted on September 5, 2019December 19, 2021 by Zak Felix

Gloriously masculine and mechanical: The Futurist Manifesto


Gloriously masculine and mechanical: The Futurist Manifesto

The three themes of their manifesto show how the Futurists envisioned the modern world a century ago

ARTICLE: THE FUTURIST MANIFESTO

Posted on August 29, 2019September 18, 2020 by Zak Felix

The Giver: The passages about euthanasia and suicide

The Giver: The passages about euthanasia and suicide

Why the dystopian novel was considered inappropriate for its young audience? Read the passages on euthanasia and suicide

BOOK: THE GIVER

Posted on May 26, 2019March 8, 2021 by Zak Felix

The jihadi manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones

The jihadi manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones

Summary and excerpts from the radical text that inspired terror attacks over the last 40 years

BOOK: MILESTONES

Posted on March 31, 2019July 14, 2020 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

Ironically Candide—a satire on optimism—should make you optimistic


Ironically Candide—a satire on optimism—should make you optimistic

Looking back at Candide’s misfortunes 270 years later. How likely are they to happen today?

BOOK: CANDIDE

Posted on November 4, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?


What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?

Why The Communist Manifesto is one of the most controversial books of all time? Read the revolutionary and controversial words

BOOK: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Posted on July 6, 2018December 31, 2021 by Zak Felix

Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages


Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages

Why was the 1950s French novel banned? It begins with O’s lover sexually training her: She is stripped, whipped and “gangbanged”

BOOK: STORY OF O

Posted on May 27, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

Carrie: The bloody parts


Carrie: The bloody parts

Why Stephen King’s Carrie is controversial? Read here all the controversial passages from the book

BOOK: CARRIE

Posted on January 21, 2018July 14, 2020 by Zak Felix

A Light in the Attic: The controversial poems


A Light in the Attic: The controversial poems

Read the controversial poems by Shel Silverstein deemed by some parents and teachers too controversial for children

BOOK: A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

Posted on December 31, 2017March 6, 2021 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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