Some Indian states have banned a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi after U.S. and U.K. reviews carried the implication that the revered leader had a sexual relationship with German-Jewish bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach. Homosexuality was only decriminalized in India in 2009.
“The Pale King represents Wallace’s finest work as a novelist.” Lev Grossman on David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished book.
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