Once again, the American Library Association is “celebrating” Banned Books Week. Each year the organization provides a list of books that are frequently banned, schedules events, and provides useful information for stopping those who would ban books. This year’s list … Continue reading
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“Just as all American publishers hope that if they are good and lead upright lives, their books will be banned in Boston, so do all English publishers pray that theirs will be denounced from the pulpit by a bishop.” – … Continue reading
By Brenda Clough This image could be one of those Facebook memes — if you know what this is, we know how old you are! There was a time when almost every single comic book had one of these seals at … Continue reading
by Nancy Jane Moore Free speech isn’t free. We have the right in the United States to say what’s on our minds, but speech still has consequences. The old saw — “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words … Continue reading
In perusing the American Library Association’s list of banned and challenged books, I’m struck by the agenda underlying many of the objections. The general notion is that parents have a right, even an obligation, to prevent their children from reading … Continue reading
Looking over the ALA’s list of banned and challenged classics, I see a lot of my favorite books there. In some cases I can understand the reasons for people wanting to ban them, but not for this one. To Kill … Continue reading
The most famous banned book I know of is ULYSSES, by James Joyce. These days it’s considered a monumental work of Modernist Literature, with capital letters and everything. When it first came out, as a serial production during the first … Continue reading
The fear of witchcraft led to a church adding a couple of Harry Potter books to their annual purifying bonfire. The event got out of hand — and that’s how The Lord of the Rings became a burned book.
Continue readingIt would be difficult to find a neighborhood more concentrated with left-leaning intelligentsia than the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Which is not to say there are not conservatives, curmudgeons, and random people who think the world is going to … Continue reading
Every generation seems to need a bugbear. That’s the Terrible Other, the Axis of Evil, the Stinking Commies–some nebulous They that’s coming to get us all booga booga. Well before the attacks on 9/11, Islam had become the bugbear of … Continue reading