(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Home Fires

[Marc Aramini]

Now people let their leanings interfere with objective criticism, especially if the viewpoint is unpopular.  As if Tristam Shandy wasn't anti-papist in its rhetoric.  Yet there are many Catholics who love it.  It would be a sin against art for a Catholic to dismiss Tristam Shandy's merit based on that obvious prejudice of the time and place of its composition.  

This reactive "everything must be sound and free from all stereotyping/common fears relating to a belief system so that no one may be offended" makes for some bland, boring, and uninteresting fiction.