Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! makes the case that we exist in the “Sensitivity Era”.
According to Szetela, American literature – in particular literature for young people – is threatened by a scourge of self-appointed, self-righteous culture police. These moral auditors insist the representation of marginalised groups in books must be evaluated against a reductive set of criteria, which harmfully essentialise categories such as race, gender and disability.
