The number of book bans in the US has soared in recent years. A new study shines light on which types of books and authors are the main targets.
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More than 40,000 people petitioned to reverse Cumberland City Council’s book ban, showing the power of collective action against censorship.
Cumberland City Council’s ban of books depicting same-sex parents from its libraries implies such relationships are unnatural or strange. What’s happening?
Distinct from civil disobedience, this legal strategy demands complete compliance with the law – even when there are loopholes that the laws’ creators didn’t intend.
The constitutionality of the recent wave of proposed book bans is unclear, as the US Supreme Court has given states wide latitude to regulate what is read in public schools and libraries.
After decades of banned books, arrests and raids, Penguin Books Australia decided to take a stand against literary censorship. A new book tells the inside story.
Fantasy fiction provides more than escapism for young readers.
Recently uncovered Norman Lindsay novels reveal stories of love, lust and beaches.
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but was swiftly banned. Yet the similarities between her spare prose and Hemingway’s are unmistakable.
The writings of John WIlmot, Earl of Rochester, were certainly obscene. But his poetry also gave us a new way of looking at the human condition.
Fairytales are increasingly being targeted for giving girls inappropriate messages. But these stories have always evolved with the times, and talk of banning them is misguided.
As Harry Potter turns 20, a scholar says protesters who try to censor books do not trust young readers to discern the difference between fantasy and reality. But why?
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Associate Teaching Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Research Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of the S. Daniel Abrham Honors Program, Yeshiva University
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
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Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Sessional Academic, Children's Literature and Creative Writing, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
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Adjunct assistant professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of English, affiliate with Africana Studies and Women's & Gender Studies, Clark University
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Sessional Academic in Creative Writing and Literature, Swinburne University of Technology
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Postdoctoral researcher, Le Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales, Sciences Po