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From New Zealand-born, Melbourne-raised Rosé to Stray Kids and NewJeans having two Australian members each, how is it ...
The auteur's latest finds a renegade tycoon confronted with usual Wesworld fare—assassins, the government, his daughter. But ...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' is everyone's favorite version of the story, but the 1971 Gene Wilder delight was born ...
“Roald Dahl’s racism is undeniable and indelible ... after Dahl’s publisher said it would be revising hundreds of words in his books to make his works more inclusive for modern audiences ...
In fact, the word "fat" had been excised from every book ... "It's not like the government or some sinister organisation is removing Roald Dahl's original texts from libraries.
But what difference can a few changed words really make? Roald Dahl’s children’s books are not exactly the nicest. Dahl’s characters glory in insults and meanness. The adults are generally ...
Fundamentally changing words or context in existing books – or trying to prevent them from being published in the first place – is more insidious. If Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming are fair game ...
When it was reported last month that hundreds of words had been changed or removed ... Factory,” “Matilda” and other books by Roald Dahl in an effort to make them less offensive, everyone ...
Following recent news that Roald Dahl's publishers have amended the latest editions of the late author's books to remove words they think may be considered offensive, news2day decided to ask the ...
CALE: So, here's the sitch, Puffin Books, the publisher of Roald Dahl's work, hired people called 'sensitivity readers' to, well, read through the books and mark out any words or phrases that they ...
Some works of literature are concerned with the impact on society of censorship. An obvious example is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which language itself is altered to prevent ...