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It seems like every few weeks, we hear mutterings of a new book ban in the United States. Whether it's Iowa's school districts trying to remove more than 3,000 books from its schools, or the ...
1. “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” —Benjamin Franklin 2. “America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.” —Thomas Wolfe 3.
The heart of Jonathan Blitzer’s new book about Central America is ... Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer, from ...
Here’s how book banning emerged in the United States—stretching as far back ... and by the time Great Britain founded its colonies in America, it had a longstanding history of book censorship.
Jess Walter, author of “Beautiful Ruins,” returns with “So Far Gone,” a short novel set in present day America.
PEN America, a free speech organization, is out with a new report that found nearly 1,500 instances of book-banning across the United States in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.
Klimek: This episode is being released right in the middle of Banned Books Week in America. The American ... Thanksgiving or the founding of the United States. Had things gone differently, had ...
With the 250 th anniversary of its founding just three years away, the United States of America appears in some ... co-authored and edited more than 15 books. These include the newly published ...
PEN America, a literary and free expression ... The group has been tracking book bans across the United States for the past two years. From July to December 2022, the group says, there were ...
Did you have any books you read growing up that had a major impact on your life? Were you surprised that in the United States, your book has become one of the most frequently banned books in ...