The 10 latest articles on Censorship & Banned Books come from 10 sources, published between Nov 9 and Nov 12.
Organizations: Facebook (3)
Places: Colorado (2), County (2)
Opinion SPECS reading list: an argument for reading about taboo topics During the 2025-2026 academic year, nearly 12,000 book bans were implemented in public schools in the United States, including more than 7,370 distinct titles. These bans are representative of a larger movement…
BOOK EXCERPT For children: A super-secret club of book lovers sneaks ‘banned’ books into their school library An excerpt from ‘The Book Ghosts’, by Varsha Seshan, illustrated by Sahitya Rani. Add Scroll on Google iOS App Android App Author Varsha…
3 hours agoRob TriggShropshire political reporterBBCTracey J Morgan wrote Cinnamon's Big Adventure after a capybara escaped from Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World near Telford For authors like Tracey J Morgan from Shrewsbury, the thought of limiting people's access to books is…
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As proud citizens of Colorado, we’d like to say our state officials are working to protect their constituents’ constitutional freedoms. But in some areas, they are not. That’s what led us to file a lawsuit that will be heard at…
Libraries Former Pickens County Library Director Files Wrongful Termination Lawsuit; Unearths Depths of Censorship, Library Attacks Kelly Jensen Nov 11, 2026 Kelly Jensen Editor Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL…
By M.A. Baby That oft-quoted line from the German poet and playwright Heinrich Heine’s play "Almansor" is engraved on the Bibliothek memorial at Bebelplatz in central Berlin. It commemorates the Nazi book burning of May 10, 1933, when members of the German Student…
What connects F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nancy Mitford, Edna O’Brien, John Updike and Iris Murdoch? It’s not just that they were famous writers. They were all authors of books historically banned by the State on the grounds that they…
If you’re a reader who treads off the beaten path of TikTok favorites, you’ll probably enjoy reading “Notes of a Crocodile” by Qiu Miaojin. Set in Taipei during the late 1980s, the novel follows an anonymous college student named “Lazi” as…
Three queer authors are challenging rules that threaten libraries’ funding for acquiring youth titles with trans characters, even for adult readers. Selma Dallas County Public Library in Selma, Alabama, on July 8, 2018. Three queer writers sued Alabama’s state library board over…
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