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Reviews of subversive literature
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News In my last YCRT! post I mentioned Rudolfo Anaya’s novel Bless Me, Ultima, a frequently challenged and banned book now being made into a movie. Here are a few other banned books that have received the Hollywood treatment. Did […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! News Roundup Japanese town puts up a replica of Michelangelo’s “David,” residents demand pants. Remember that guy who got Americans and Congress all worked up over comic books back in the 1950s? Turns out his “research” was bogus. Yakima, Washington area […]
YCRT! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Banned & Challenged Books I’m not a big fan of lists, but here’s one I can get behind: five subversive children’s books everyone should read. Parents in Texas go after a high school AP English reading list and school administrators cave, removing Chuck Palaniuk’s Fight […]
YCRT! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Is your child’s teacher thinking about sex? Right this minute? Smutty-minded parents in Ohio clamor for a high school teacher to be fired after she writes a novel with sex in it Same thing (Pennsylvania, last year) Michigan educators stand firm against removing Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about censorship and banned books. You can’t say that on the internet! Well then, why don’t we build an internet where we can say what we please? Until then, we’ll have to rely on Auden’s points of light, flashing out wherever the Just exchange their messages. I think we all […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. Arizona Banned Books Week had a special resonance here in Tucson, where we wear the scarlet letter of shame over one of the nation’s most infamous cases of book banning, a banning made all the worse by the racism that […]
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring news about banned and challenged books. Yes, Virginia, They Still Ban Books in Tucson, Arizona. The American Library Association, which recently concluded its annual Banned Books Week campaign, is sometimes accused of banning books that right-wing and religious groups would like to see placed in libraries. […]
I don’t often copy from other blogs, but IMHO The Hairpin scored major points here and I feel the need to blockquote a couple of samples: Commonly Banned: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Ban Instead: Explanations of why The Catcher in the Rye is overrated to people who’ve just said that it’s meaningful to […]