A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
This year, more than most in recent memory, it is essential to stand up for the right to read and to oppose those who would try to infringe upon that basic freedom.
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The manuscript, deemed by the French government a national treasure, is one of the most controversial and frequently banned works ever published.
John Rechy's 1963 debut novel is simultaneously a product of its time and somehow outside of time altogether.
A copy of D.H. Lawrence’s notorious novel, marked up by a British judge’s wife, will remain in the U.K. following a successful crowdfunding campaign.