The church sits just behind the walls of the Topkapi Palace, a much less famous little sister to Hagia Sophia. The possible positives of Puritanism sprang to mind as I read John Sutherland’s timely and comprehensive Triggered Literature. For all the author’s even-handed presentation of great literature as necessarily “tricky”, there is the odd pantomime appearance. At the very start of the book, Sutherland reminds us that “triggering” was a candidate for word of the year in 2014. Triggered Literature: Cancellation, stealth censorship and cultural warfareJohn SutherlandBiteback Publishing £18.99(978-1-78590-817-0)Church Times Bookshop £17.09

Source: The Times December 15, 2023 00:41 UTC