{"id":506217,"date":"2025-12-29T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=506217"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:49:55","slug":"sorokin-s-and-burroughs-books-added-to-the-list-of-banned-publications-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sorokin-s-and-burroughs-books-added-to-the-list-of-banned-publications-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Sorokin\u2019s and Burroughs\u2019 Books Added to the List of Banned Publications in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ministry of Information has added 52 books to the list of banned publications. The list includes a book on the history of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic, three novels by Vladimir Sorokin<\/strong>, several novels by William Burroughs<\/strong>, and the \u201cPilotages\u201d cycle by Bayan Shiryanov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The decision to ban the books was made by the Republican Commission for the Evaluation of Symbols, Attributes and Information Products.
\n\u201cAll these publications are capable of harming the national interests of our country,\u201d<\/em> the Ministry of Information said.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cOur Neighbours on the Planet. Stories About Wild Animals\u201d by Bouvin Jansen, Lotte Stegman<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cDad\u201d by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Delforge, Quentin Gr\u00e9ban<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cWhere Do Children Come From?\u201d by Katie Daynes<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cHappy Parents\u201d by Laetitia Bourget, Emmanuel Hudard<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cMy Mum\u201d by Servane Stephan, Emmanuel Hudard<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cBees\u201d by Petr Socha<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cPear Orchard\u201d by Nana Ekvtimishvili<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cThe Belarusian People\u2019s Republic 1918\u20131920: At the Origins of Belarusian Statehood\u201d by Dorota Michaluk<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cThe Child Thief\u201d by Gerald Brom<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cA Pile of Bones\u201d by J.D. Kirk<\/li>\n
  11. \u201cInside the Killer\u201d by Mike Omer<\/li>\n
  12. \u201cAlive in the Dark\u201d by Mike Omer<\/li>\n
  13. \u201cThrough the Eyes of the Victim\u201d by Mike Omer<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cTwelve\u201d by Nick McDonell<\/li>\n
  15. \u201cThe Scariest Book. Lawlessness\u201d compiled by M.S. Parfenov<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have to Finish Eating\u201d by Olga Ovchinnikova<\/li>\n
  17. \u201cParticipants\u201d by Denis Epifantsev<\/li>\n
  18. \u201cUnwanted Children\u201d by Dainy Costelow<\/li>\n
  19. \u201cZiggy Stardust and Me\u201d by Brandon James<\/li>\n
  20. \u201cMonsters and Beauties. Dangerous Tales\u201d by Soman Chainani<\/li>\n
  21. \u201cInheritance\u201d by Vladimir Sorokin<\/li>\n
  22. \u201cDay of the Oprichnik\u201d by Vladimir Sorokin<\/li>\n
  23. \u201cSugar Kremlin\u201d by Vladimir Sorokin<\/li>\n
  24. \u201cConfessions of a Cannibal\u201d by David Madsen<\/li>\n
  25. \u201cBDSM from the Inside\u201d by White Incubus<\/li>\n
  26. \u201cBoys vs Girls. Children\u2019s Questions About Stereotypes\u201d by St\u00e9phanie Duval, Sandra Laboucarie<\/li>\n
  27. \u201cLow-Level Pilotage\u201d by Bayan Shiryanov<\/li>\n
  28. \u201cIntermediate Pilotage\u201d by Bayan Shiryanov<\/li>\n
  29. \u201cSupreme Pilotage\u201d by Bayan Shiryanov<\/li>\n
  30. \u201cA Novel with Cocaine\u201d by Mark Ageyev<\/li>\n
  31. \u201cShamanic Space\u201d by Steve Aylett<\/li>\n
  32. \u201cIbiza\u201d by Colin Butts<\/li>\n
  33. \u201cIbiza Is a Verb\u201d by Colin Butts<\/li>\n
  34. \u201cIbiza Around the Clock\u201d by Colin Butts<\/li>\n
  35. \u201cJunkie\u201d by William Burroughs<\/li>\n
  36. \u201cLetters to Yach\u00e9\u201d by William Burroughs<\/li>\n
  37. \u201cJunkie. Homosexual\u201d by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg<\/li>\n
  38. \u201cThe Narco Priest\u201d by Nicholas Blincoe<\/li>\n
  39. \u201cAcidheads\u201d by Nicholas Blincoe<\/li>\n
  40. \u201cThe Beach\u201d by Alex Garland<\/li>\n
  41. \u201cNo\u201d by Linor Goralik, Sergei Kuznetsov<\/li>\n
  42. \u201cTravel Lamb\u201d by Anastasia Gosteva<\/li>\n
  43. \u201cMarijuana: The Forbidden Medicine\u201d by Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar<\/li>\n
  44. \u201cAltered State. The History of Ecstasy and Rave Culture\u201d by Colin Matthew<\/li>\n
  45. \u201cTimothy Leary: Temptation of the Future\u201d by Robert Forte<\/li>\n
  46. \u201cPsychogenic Mushrooms\u201d by Dmitry Sokolov<\/li>\n
  47. \u201cStorming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream\u201d by Jay Stevens<\/li>\n
  48. \u201cGrassroots\u201d by Mike Thelwell<\/li>\n
  49. \u201cJim Morrison After Death\u201d by Mick Farren<\/li>\n
  50. \u201cA Scanner Darkly\u201d by Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n
  51. \u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d by Richard Hell<\/li>\n
  52. \u201cPhenethylamines I Have Known and Loved\u201d by Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Ministry of Information has added 52 books to the list of banned publications. The list includes a book on the history of the Belarusian People\u2019s Republic, three novels by Vladimir Sorokin, several novels by William Burroughs, and the \u201cPilotages\u201d cycle by Bayan Shiryanov. The decision to ban the books was made by the Republican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/695313a920857.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sorokin\u2019s and Burroughs\u2019 Books Added to the List of Banned Publications in Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}