MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Don’t ban the books
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
THE GOOD FIGHT: Librarian Amanda Jones showing her article on cyberbullying at the School Library Journal Summit, December 2023
[Amanda Jones/CC] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
That Librarian — The Fight Against Book-Banning in America
Amanda Jones, Bloomsbury, £18
THE first amendment to the constitution of the United States purports to protect freedom of expression, namely freedom of speech, religion and the press.
However, this freedom was flouted from the start and by the 1850s the Southern states were censoring anti-slavery material, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was given a public burning.
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