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The Booksmith, a San Francisco shop that features a “Books, Not Bans” campaign on its website, pulled every J.K. Rowling title from its store this week. Literature lovers can tell you all about the ...
Between 2021 and 2023, PEN’s Index of School Book Bans clocked 5,894 instances of book bans in 41 states; in the 2023–24 school year, the number was close to double that.
After 25 issues, the Hulk has gotten his wish, but without Banner’s human heart, is the Hulk anything more than a monster of rage? That’s the question that his teenage sidekick Charlie Tidwell ...
Ferrell also is with the Florida Freedom to Read Project, an organization advocating for book access. The two other plaintiffs are Anne Watts Tressler and Nancy Tray of St. Johns County.
The book features a nude Greek statue on the cover. Ancient Greek nude dudes is one thing, but you will not mess with Calvin and Hobbes on my watch. And after all, there are lessons to be learned ...
THE Royal Horticultural Society's “Lily Year Book” for 1935 (from the Society's Office, Vincent Square, S.W.I. 5s. paper, 6s. cloth) is something more than a mere review of progress; some very ...
Books Received Published: 25 June 1938 Encyclopædia Britannica—Book of the Year 1938 ALLAN FERGUSON Nature 141, 1120–1121 (1938) Cite this article ...
The law and state regulation do not cover classroom books or materials. The Freedom to Read Act was a response to attempted book bans in public school districts, including in Carroll County, where a ...
The general theme of this column is “anything I find interesting,” and lately that’s been local book festivals, because they keep making the news. I first wrote about a Baltimore event that didn’t go ...