Books Divide Us, but They Can Also Heal

Differences Are Inevitable—But Censorship Is Not the Only Response

“You can’t exist as a writer for very long without learning,” said Margaret Atwood, “that something you write is going to upset someone, sometime, somewhere.” The same goes for readers: You can’t exist as reader for very long without learning some book, sometime, somewhere will upset you. Welcome to literature. Now what?

Two recent reports by the free-sp…