Every year, as the leaves turn goldenrod and the kiddos go back to school, the American Library Association rolls out a list of the books most challenged by libraries and… Read more »

I can clearly recall the day my local librarian handed me Judy Blume’s Forever…, a twinkle in her eye. Published in 1975, the novel charts a high school girl’s coming of… Read more »

Scattered throughout Washington, D.C. this week are hundreds of books wrapped in plain black jackets with bold white text proclaiming the “objectionable” content within: “FILTHY TRASHY SEX NOVEL,” “SMUT,” “PROFANE… Read more »

Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »

Oh, Highland Park, Texas Independent School District Superintendant Dawson Orr. You scamp! I’d love to give you the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe, when you went ahead with this new… Read more »

Banned Books Week will be celebrated once again this September, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is highlighting comics that have been challenged and banned in an effort to… Read more »

We’ve been reading banned books all week long at Melville House! You can read them too. All of the books below are available for 20% off the list price on… Read more »

One intrepid individual has an especially close relationship with the author… Read more »

It is one of the timeless truths of literature that any book worth being banned is one worth being read. Any book with something in it that could inspire indignant… Read more »

Since 1970, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has produced Braille editions of Playboy magazine. Service was briefly interrupted in December, 1985, after thirteen-term, Ohio congressman Chalmers Wylie… Read more »