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The French Connection

The French Disconnection

June 9, 2023June 14, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Gene Hackman, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, The Criterion Channel, The French Connection, The Stand, William Friedkin

Criterion Channel’s edit of a classic 1971 film is latest attempt to expunge all traces of past insensitivity

Who Will the Sensitivity Readers Edit Next?

March 15, 2023 Jamie Mason 1 Comment Enid Blyton, Huckleberry Finn, Ian Fleming, James, Mary Grant Bruce, Percival Everett, Roald Dahl, The Canterbury Tales, The Hardy Boys

Remaking literary works after the fact is nothing new, but let’s take every due caution

You Only Edit Twice

February 28, 2023March 2, 2023 Jamie Mason 2 Comments Ian Fleming, James Bond, Live and Let Die, Roald Dahl, You Only Live Twice

If you rewrite a super spy to avoid retrograde racist attitudes, are you throwing out the Bond with the bathwater?

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #093: ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Censoring Roald Dahl, and the Decline of Sex in Movies

February 27, 2023March 1, 2023 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments Cocaine Bear, Roald Dahl

Our team of critics inhales the culture

Dahl

FICTION Politics Young Adult

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

Roald Dahl

Biography NON-FICTION

The Real Dahl

January 25, 2023January 30, 2023 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Matthew Dennison, Patricia Neal, Roald Dahl, Teller of the Unexpected, You Only Live Twice

New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life