Photo by Heather Sten/New York Times/Redux/eyevine Elizabeth Gilbert – the author of the chick-lit classic Eat, Pray, Love – announced last week that the publication of her new novel, The Snow Forest, will be delayed indefinitely. More than 500 people used Goodreads to condemn the novel – crucially without having read it. It is grossly insensitive, so the (mostly anonymous) Goodreaders argue, that Gilbert has chosen to publish a book set in Russia and about Russian people in the midst of the war in Ukraine. Never mind that the book is set in the 20th century (long before the invention...