Like a Rolling Tome
A Florida bookseller hopes an old-fashioned bookmobile will help combat the growing tide of school censorship
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Politics
Who Will the Sensitivity Readers Edit Next?
Remaking literary works after the fact is nothing new, but let’s take every due caution
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Educators Are Emptying Bookshelves Under Legal Pressure
Republican lawmakers continue push for criminal penalties for making “inappropriate” books available to minors
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Where Have All the Sex Scenes Gone?
Hollywood’s annoyingly puritanical Intercourse Discourse
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Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl
The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels
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The Justin Roiland Scandal Implicates Everyone Involved
The powers-that-be have a lot of skin invested in the ‘Rick and Morty’ game. They’d rather its creator just go away quietly.
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Knives Out for ‘Glass Onion’
The mystery of the never-ending discourse
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2022–The Year in Censorship
A shameful 12 months for book banners
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HarperCollins Strike Continues With No Sign of an End
As the labor action enters its third week, we interview a key union member
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‘Sold A Story’ Reignites Reading Wars
Podcast fuels new debate about best way to teach kids to read
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Ron Howard Should Not Be In Jail
You don’t like J.D. Vance? Well, it’s not Ron Howard’s fault
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Publishing Professionals Issue Orwellian ‘Dissent’ Against Amy Coney Barrett Memoir
One of the most cowardly, wrongheaded, pathetic statements in American literary history
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Not All Banned Books
Banned Books Week leaves out some of the classics
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George Stay On Top of This
‘Power Trip’ with George Stephanopolous is an ineffective CNN+-like show hiding out on Hulu
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Libraries Closing Under Threat
Banned Books Week turns dark as numerous city libraries shut down after bomb scares
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