2024: The Year In Censorship
From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events
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Author: Sharyn Vane
Anti-Israel Writers Claim That They Forced Suzanne Nossel, the Head of PEN America, To Resign Last Week
Nossel says that her change of jobs had nothing to do with a year of relentless criticism
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Banned Books Week Issues A Call To Action For 2024
Freedom To Read advocates are feeling the urgency of an election year.
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‘To Be Destroyed’ Exposes the Reality of School-District Book Banning
If the schoolboard comes at Dave Eggers, they’d best not miss
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‘House of Bone and Rain’ is Gabino Iglesias’s Star Turn
Author’s latest novel should make him a household name
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Author Gabrielle Zevin is the Latest Target of a Disturbing Mindset in the Lit World
Excluding authors for imaginary support of Israel normalizes excluding Jewish writers
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Tales of the Online Dance Cult
‘Dancing For The Devil,’ the #1 show on Netflix, is both a cautionary tale and a riveting real-time true-crime soap opera
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Book Review: ‘They Came For The Schools’
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the current battles in education.
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PEN America Takes the Coward’s Way Out
Literary organization has canceled its annual awards after nominees drop out to protest the Israel-Gaza war
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Pro-Israel Stance Derails Brett Gelman’s Book Tour
Controversy surrounding the ‘Stranger Things’ actor’s book debut is the latest example of questionable attitude among “literary” people toward Jewish perspectives
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Federal Court Blocks Texas “Sexual Content” Book-Rating Law
A big win for independent bookstores and free speech
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2023–The Year in Censorship
A glimmer of hope!
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To Ban a Mockingbird
It’s wrong to use censorship tactics, even if your goals are “progressive”
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What’s In The Box?
Scholastic has separated out controversial books because of censorious state laws, but anti-censorship advocates say that’s not the solution
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It’s Banned Books Week, My Dudes!
Not much to celebrate this year, as a graphic-novel adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank continues to gin up controversy
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