“For a first-time offender, that is a life-altering penalty”. Sam Elkin on the case of Lauren Ashley Mastrosa and the books we don’t want to defend.
The books we don’t want to defend: literary fiction, censorship and the case of Daddy’s Little Toy - Overland literary journalThe freedom to write is not tested by those books abounding with literary merit. It is tested by the books that embarrass us, repel us and make silence feel safer than speaking up against dangerous pr...overland.org.au