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25 July 2014

Don’t read this book: A history of literary censorship

Leo Robson reviews three new works concerned with banned literature.

By Leo Robson

(Photo By A Nazi book-burning. Photo: Getty)

The Zhivago Affair: the Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book 
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
Harvill Secker, 350pp, £20


The Most Dangerous Book: the Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses 
Kevin Birmingham
Head of Zeus, 420pp, £20

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