It is one of the timeless truths of literature that any book worth being banned is one worth being read. Any book with something in it that could inspire indignant… Read more »

“I grew up in South Tucson. So when I go down to Tucson Unified School District, I’m going home.” — John Huppenthal Like many of us, John Huppenthal would seem… 1 / Read more »

British publisher Peter McGee, of London-based publishing house Albertas Press, has apparently backed down from his vow to publish excerpts from Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf (see the earlier MobyLives… Read more »

“At least half-a-dozen court cases have been filed against four authors and three organisers of the Jaipur Literature Festival where extracts from Salman Rushdie’s banned book The Satanic Verses were… 3 / Read more »

Less than a month after Britain’s biggest bookstore chain, Waterstones, had to apologize because branches in Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire “pushed Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf as the ‘perfect’ Christmas… 1 / Read more »

Salman Rushdie, author of the Satanic Verses and famously the target of a fatwah by the Ayatollah Khomeni, is once again at the center of another controversy, according to a… 2 / Read more »

As many of you might now know, Ragip Zarakolu, the owner of Belge Publishing House, was arrested last Friday along with 40 other pro-Kurdish on charges of terrorism, though this… Read more »

For six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a… Read more »

Berkeley County, South Carolina thinks it has solved some of the thorniest questions of criminal rehabilitation and is doubling down on a controversial policy that allows inmates to read nothing… Read more »

REPORTER: Do you find your second novel coming slow? MISS LEE: Well, I hope to live to see it published. (From the transcript of press conference published in Rogue magazine… Read more »