From PenguinRandom House comes Staff Picks: Our Favorite Banned Books. I have read seven of the books, and from that I will day they are worth reading regardless of reason.
MacMillan published Banned Books, a list and of which I have read none.
This article from The Bulkwark feels related: The Power of Words and the Need to Protect Free Speech:
The culture wars are vast and multilayered, and even a three-hour event is going to leave some important aspects of it un- or underdiscussed. During the Q&A, I asked (via notecard) about the library wars: While they unquestionably involve some genuinely authoritarian behavior on the right, is “book ban” too broad and simple a label for actions that may involve simply removing a book from a “recommended reading” list, dropping it from a school curriculum, or limiting access to age-inappropriate material? Nossel answered my question and acknowledged that age-appropriateness could be a legitimate concern, but the conversation that followed did little to clarify distinctions between different kinds of restrictions. (A particularly troubling effort in Virginia sought to find two LGBT-themed books in violation of state obscenity laws and to block bookstores from selling them to minors; but that suit was tossed by a judge at the end of August.)
sch 9/19/2022
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