Freedom to Read Week 2025: Ulysses by James Joyce
Joyce's novel is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
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A Blog About Books and Reading
Joyce's novel is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Barbara Kay took to the pages of the National Post to complain about the government having "wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel."
As we are witnessing on a global scale, it is all too easy to lose the essential freedoms we in a democratic society take for granted.
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.
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.