You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

As to the challenges and bans taking place around the country as organized groups of reactionaries pretending to be parents disrupt school board meetings over “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” claiming it’s pornographic: no, it is anything but.

You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Out of Darkness

Ashley Hope Perez’s novel “Out of Darkness,” published in 2015, is a Romeo and Juliet story set against the backdrop of an actual historical event: the New London, Texas, school explosion of 1937, which killed more than 300 students and teachers.