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Censorship Through Centuries: On the Long Fight for Queer Liberation

Censorship Through Centuries: On the Long Fight for Queer Liberation

Rebecca L. Davis Examines Battles Over Drag Story Hours and Book Bans Through the Lens of LGBTQ History

By Rebecca L. Davis | September 9, 2024

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

Ed Simon on Free Speech, Book Bans and Court-Mandated Censorship, Then and Now

By Ed Simon | July 3, 2024

Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

Michael Leali Imagines a World Where Queer Kids Have Access to Books That Celebrate Their Identities

By Michael Leali | June 17, 2024

What’s Wrong With PEN America, and Why We Need It To Survive

What’s Wrong With PEN America, and Why We Need It To Survive

For Maris Kreizman, Dissent is Not Censorship

By Maris Kreizman | May 9, 2024

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

By Yan Lianke | April 23, 2024

How Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Knowledge Behind Bars

How Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Knowledge Behind Bars

Kwaneta Harris Explores Systemic Censorship Within the Criminal Justice System

By Kwaneta Harris | April 4, 2024

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The Gift of Reading Toni Morrison to My Black Daughter in an Age of Book Bans

By Rae Giana Rashad | February 13, 2024

Read novelist Lana Bastašić's blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship.

Read novelist Lana Bastašić's blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship.

By Dan Sheehan | January 30, 2024

Cops search middle school for banned books in liberal Massachusetts

Cops search middle school for banned books in liberal Massachusetts

By Jonny Diamond | January 8, 2024

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Down the Centuries: How Each Era Has Reinvented Chaucer

Marion Turner on the Dramatically Different Ways We Have Read The Canterbury Tales

By Marion Turner | December 11, 2023

Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction

Moira Marquis on the Importance of Magical Thinking For the Incarcerated

By Moira Marquis | December 7, 2023

Censoring Kids’ Worlds: Laurie Hertzel on the Danger of Banning Books for Children

Censoring Kids’ Worlds: Laurie Hertzel on the Danger of Banning Books for Children

A Love Letter to Judy Blume, Maurice Sendak, and the Other Authors that Defined Her Youth

By Laurie Hertzel | November 20, 2023

Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

"I’m ignorant and confused, even more so than Kafka’s man from the country"

By Ahmed Naji | October 19, 2023

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John Sargent on the Furious Publication Journey of Michael Wolff's Tell-All Book

By John Sargent | September 20, 2023

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