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Posted on August 5, 2021

S5 E9 Squalid glamour: Isherwood ‘Goodbye to Berlin’ (1939)

Cover art for this book today is heavily influenced by ‘Cabaret’ film and stage adaptations that grew out of this book. In the 1930s, Berlin was a byeword for transgressive excess, both sexual and political. This fine collection of stories inevitably attracted the censor’s ire.

Posted on October 23, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E6 War is hell: Boell, ‘And where were you, Adam?’ (1951)

How did a subtle, refined war novel earn a ban? Perhaps the faeces and war crimes were more offensive than the barely-there sex.

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