Still recovering from last year’s near-fatal public attack, Salman Rushdie releases new novel
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
Racist incident at the Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, involves an encounter with a man trying to remove “anti-white” books from store shelves
"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.
Sounding the alarm: What two classic 20th century science fiction novels have to say about our world in 2023
Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.
Kid lit non-profit We Need Diverse Books initiates anti-censorship effort Books Save Lives
The campaign includes a grant to schools as well as grassroots organizing and support for affected writers.
Margaret Atwood and Rupi Kaur among signatories on an open letter condemning Missouri law that encourages school library book bans
The bill makes it more likely that school boards will ban or pull books from their shelves to avoid potential charges.
Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
“The final victory of the censor”: What is at stake in the Salman Rushdie assault
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
Ted Cruz slams a book on policing during Senate confirmation hearing, sends the book to the bestseller list
The stunt by the junior senator from Texas backfired in the most spectacular way.
Freedom to Read Week 2022: From Plato to fake news, Eric Berkowitz provides a concise and nuanced history of censorship in the West
The history of censorship is inextricable from the history of power and in a changing world, it behooves us to consider how to balance speech and security.