‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless by drak0bsidian Related: I started to read A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess – It’s really weird Reading Camus for the first time. “A Happy Death” doesn’t make sense. Help needed. Dune. Oh my god. Anatomy of a book cover A Garden of Verses: As commonplace books evolved into anthologies, they developed reputations as canonical works, their editors curating tomes as vibrant as the loveliest bouquets.