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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...” Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” chronicles the plight of the 1950s Beat Generation and shocked the nation. But beyond its cultural impact, “Howl” led to a landmark 1957 court…
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From book bans and blacklists to denials of publishing support, the history of literature is full of writers who paid a high price for what they wrote or publicly advocated. The case of Sally Rooney raises an old, but still…
Banned Books Week is October 4–10, 2026. This week and beyond, we honor the stories that spark conversation, shine a light on injustice, and refuse to be silenced. We’re highlighting 5 books that have been challenged or banned from schools and libraries across…
Avery Tussing is a current member of Pace University's chapter of Her Campus. She loves writing and curating content, specifically in the bookish and writing spaces. In her articles, she writes about a wide variety of topics from books, film…
BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter, from a Pickering College student, is in response to…
(Andy Kropa | Invision/AP) Author Jodi Picoult in 2025 in New York. Just months after Utah banned her novel “Nineteen Minutes” from all public schools, author Jodi Picoult is coming to the state Saturday. Here, she will headline the first-ever Salt…
As the final day of the Scranton Fringe Festival dawned, book lovers gathered at the Black Scranton Project for readings that felt clandestine. That’s because each person who stepped up to the mic during the Banned Books Brunch read from…
Book bans in Florida and Texas are at the center of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Librarians. The film follows librarians confronting an escalating wave of censorship across the country, facing harassment, threats and laws that criminalize their work. Florida…
As we more on from last week’s Banned Books Week, here’s your reminder that a week of “celebrating” banned books isn’t enough. It’s essential to now take that passion for intellectual freedom, the rights of readers, the rights of authors,…