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Posted on February 25, 2021

S4 E8 The McGahern Affair Part 1, the Book

When The Dark was banned in 1965, John McGahern became the focus of a censorship controversy. But what about this coming-of-age novel irked the censors?

Cover of the first edition – stark, much like the book itself
Posted on November 12, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E9 Compulsive wanking: Roth ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ (1969)

Why did the Irish censors ignore this spectacularly rude book? And why is a novel about a sex-obsessed Jewish man so important in the history of censorship in Australia?

Cover art from the first edition, by Paul Bacon

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