Freedom is among the central tenets of American life or, at the very least, of our marketing strategy. Patriotic phrases, songs and imagery revolve around freedom, free people and freedoms that ...
"So proud to have my book 'Shopgirl' banned in Collier County, Florida!" Martin said on Instagram. "Now, people who want to read it will have to buy a copy!" According to a recent PEN America ...
"Gender Queer" has been the most banned book in America - can you tell me more about that experience and how harmful book ...
Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-22 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color – especially women of color – according to a ...
Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel Nineteen Minutes, a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of the books most banned in ...
It was the first time the book was banned in the United States, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last. Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping ...
Read an interview with Robert P. Doyle, editor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books, a collection of thousands of titles that have been subject to censorship challenges.
The children's series "Captain Underpants" has surprisingly topped the list of the most banned books in America in 2012, beating out the much more controversial title "Fifty Shades of Grey." ...