June 29, 2017 » MobyLives! Archives

Banned books, banned curricula, and how white people in Arizona get to decide what’s American and what’s not

Peter Clark

In James Baldwin’s essay “My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” collected in The Fire Next Time, he writes: I know what the world… 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

After the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London, Philip Pullman names a Book of Dust character after a young victim

On 14th June, London experienced one of the most destructive fires in its recent history. Grenfell Tower, a twenty-four-story residential block containing 120 flats, was completely gutted by flames that caused… Read more »

New Pepe zine hopes to reestablish the cartoon frog as a symbol of love and acceptance

Chad Felix

Matt Furie, the cartoonist responsible for the creation of Pepe the Frog, that iconic and most troubling of cartoons-turned-memes, has had a tough, and very weird, couple of years. We’ve… Read more »

Reeling from Trump’s executive orders, some unacknowledged legislators propose a few of their own

Ian Dreiblatt

Since the Donald Trump took office in January, executive orders have been one of the primary means by which our long national agita is continually stoked. If you’re unclear on the exact definition,… Read more »