/lit/ - Literature

>the state and school board chose the books the books you read, and most of them were written by ultra-dead white men, with a few white women thrown in there for variety. And so, by the time you turned twenty-one, you'd somehow read The Great Gatsby six times

>That's okay. The way we perceive classic literature changes over time, and a book that you loved as a child may strike you as unforgivably problematic when you re-read it as an adult.