Dua Lipa Just Opened a Permanent Library of 100 Banned Books Inside One of the Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World
Dua Lipa has turned one of the world’s most celebrated bookstores into a permanent home for literature that’s been silenced elsewhere.
It’s called The Manifesto Library, and it lives inside Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. It’s a permanent collection of around 100 books that have been banned, censored, or challenged somewhere in the world.
The shelves are organized around four ideas: Power, Control, Voice, and Memory.
Among the titles are Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Felon, and work by Salman Rushdie and Olga Tokarczuk.
Every book in the collection was pulled, protested, or silenced somewhere else. Here, they get a permanent home.
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