GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
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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