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The FBI’s Spying on Writers Was Literary Criticism at Its Worst

FUNNY BUT FRIGHTENING

According to the nation’s top cops, James Baldwin was a ‘pervert,’ Norman Mailer was ‘difficult to read,’ and Susan Sontag was ‘subversive.’

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