Tag: I actually really liked the one Edith Wharton book I read but man no shade to people who don’t need that mess in their lives

So I saw a headline about how we should read books that offend us, and I thought “wow that content is almost certainly going to annoy me, I should not click it.” Reader, I clicked it. The author, Brian Morton, and I agree on a lot, including the idea that books may contain offensive stuff (the example he uses is Edith Wharton’s anti-Semitism) at the same time they also contain beautiful writing and paradigm-shifting insight. We agree that the morality Overton window is constantly changing, and what seems okay in one social context can seem horrifyingly immoral in another social…