John Sutherland

Burning passions

In 1988, Bradford Muslims didn’t apparently manage to incinerate Rushdie’s book — symbolic, says Kenneth Baker, of the endurance of the written word

  • On the Burning of Books: How Flames Fail to Destroy the Written Word

    Kenneth Baker

    Unicorn, pp. 266

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