Last week the American Library Association (ALA) released their Top Ten List of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2010. As we mentioned in our report, Melville House author, librarian, blogger,… Read more »
Every year certain controversial books inevitably get a lot of flak from library patrons with no sense of humor. (Some might argue no sense period, but I digress.) And every… 3 / Read more »
According to a report by Central Asia Online, “The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government November 10 banned the sale and publication of a book written by al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader Ayman… Read more »
On the heels of “Banned Books Weeks” comes a stark reminder of why we celebrate controversial books. Earlier this month, Irfan Sanci, the publisher of Sel books in Turkey, was… Read more »
Another Banned Books Week is upon us and that means booksellers and librarians everywhere will be piling up copies of Catcher In The Rye, The Adventures Of Huckleyberry Finn, Ulysses,… 14 / Read more »
“Two civil rights organizations are suing Virginia prison officials because they banned inmates from receiving a book teaching them how to file lawsuits against prisons,” reports an Associated Press wire… Read more »
Once again, the British Foreign Office is threatening to ban the book of a former diplomat member who has criticized the government of Tony Blair. As a Guardian story by… Read more »
The novel supposedly written by Saddam Hussein, Get Out of Here, Damned One (see last week’s MobyLives news digest), has been banned from publication in Jordan “on the grounds that… Read more »
A book that has “become hugely popular in small, independent stores” and is the ” talk of dinner parties” throughout Malaysia may be banned by the government because it speculates… Read more »
The Sameseong Museum of Publishing in Seoul is staging a show of books that have been banned in Korea’s recent past. As Kim Joo-young reports in a story for Yonhap… Read more »