Jamie Sarkonak: I read โThe Camp of the Saints.โ Hereโs why itโs relevant
23 April 2026 at 10:00
Jean Raspailโs The Camp of the Saints (1973) is easily one of the most suppressed books of the 20th century. Thatโs because itโs a dystopian novel about mass third-world migration, a topic still considered taboo to many. While The Handmaidโs Tale and Nineteen Eighty-Fourย have become regular headliners of โbanned bookโ campaigns and subjects of novel studies in school curriculums, English translations of Raspailโs magnum opus have been so hard to find that used hard copies sold for prices ranging into the hundreds. Until just last year, that is. Read More