Ian McEwan has expressed his opposition to sensitivity readers, accusing young people of wanting “to bind their arms and legs in ways that are just trivial”.
Speaking to the international news agency AFP in Paris, the Booker-winning novelist expressed disdain at the practice of hiring someone to read a manuscript before its publication in order to point out things that might be offensive to readers. “These mass hysterias, moral panics, sweep through populations every now and then. And I think this is one of them,” he said.
