December 18, 2013

Where have we heard this before? Judgment on an obscenity trial was postponed yesterday in Turkey, which has seen a series of these trials over the past few years for… Read more »

Censorship

Chinese translation of Indian poet draws criticism from state and scholars alike — Chad Felix
Egypt continues crackdown on novelist Alaa Al Aswany — Ena Brdjanovic
Has anyone in the White House read the Senate Torture Report? — Mark Krotov
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry

In blow to the Central Library Plan, The NYPL agrees to halt the planned destruction of the 42nd Street Library research stacks

Claire Kelley

Members of library advocacy groups Save the 42nd Street Library, Citizens Defending Libraries, and the Library Lovers League packed a court hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday morning in an attempt… Read more »

The author of The Anarchist Cookbook urges his publisher to ban the book after being linked to another violent incident

Julia Fleischaker

The news that the Arapahoe High School student who critically wounded a fellow student before killing himself was a fan of The Anarchist Cookbook renewed calls from the author himself… Read more »

New author to write fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series

Zeljka Marosevic

Yesterday, Stieg Larsson’s original Swedish publisher Norstedts Förlag announced that it will publish a fourth book in Larsson’s Millennium series. Larsson’s posthumous novels The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The… Read more »

British Library brings its collection of images to Flickr

Nick Davies

The British Library has recently taken a sizable chunk of its collection to the internet, Nick Clark writes for the Independent, posting more than a million images on Flickr for… Read more »

Melville House Books

Turkish courts think a book called “The Exploits of the Young Don Juan” might be kind of sexy

Sal Robinson