Commentary
In a time when even the conservative imprints of corporate publishing houses are under pressure not to accept books that are too offensive to woke sensibilities (witness the widening protest against Penguin Random House’s contract with Amy Coney Barrett), the New English Review Press, based in Nashville and London, is a priceless cultural institution. In recent years it’s put out books by first-rate writers such as Theodore Dalrymple and Phyllis Chesler—books that otherwise might never have seen the light of day.
Now comes news that two titles on the NEP Press’s backlist, Ibn Warraq’s “The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology” (2017) and Peter McLoughlin’s “Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal” (2016), have been removed from the virtual shelves at Amazon.com….