March 14, 2016

In 2013, the Washington Post’s T. Rees Shapiro profiled Laura Murphy, a Fairfax County, Virginia parent, whose son, Blake Murphy, was assigned Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved for his… Read more »

Censorship

Book-burning bozos back; painful parallels pondered — Mike Lindgren
Death threats and bookshop fines: Hungary faces scrutiny over anti-LGBTQ ruling — Nikki Griffiths
Libel litigations loses; publishers' precarious prerogative protected — Mike Lindgren
New press caters to "silenced" conservative voices; free speech confusion reigns — Mike Lindgren

Publishers petition to end Cuban book embargo

Julia Fleischaker

The March 14th cover of Publishers Weekly won’t feature an author, or a new book. Instead, it will highlight a petition, signed by more than 40 representatives of the publishing industry,… Read more »

Nicholas Cage to direct and star in Joyce Carol Oates adaptation

Kait Howard

Is it any surprise that Nicholas Cage has committed to directing and starring in a film adaptation of Rape: A Love Story, one of the darker of Joyce Carol Oates’s dark novels?… Read more »

What Would Leopold Bloom Do? Volume 7

Josh Cook

Complex and confusing, filled with words you don’t know and people you don’t understand, life is even more difficult to navigate than Ulysses. But luckily, we have Ulysses to help… Read more »

Melville House Books

Virginia’s “Beloved bill” would let parents block sexually explicit literature in the classroom

Mark Krotov