Helena’s Reviews > On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy > Status Update

Censorship confronts us with literature's opposite. Where literature opens conversations, censorship closes them. Where literature provokes questions, censorship insists upon answers. Where literature unsettles us with ambiguity, the realization that the "meaning" of a text is never final, censorship seeks to comfort us with moral absolutes.