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Banned Books Week ends as censorship concerns remain

There are states, says Karen Finlay, where the shelves of school libraries and classrooms are empty. It is, says the ...
From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...
By Euripides L Evriviades On August 17, 1945, in a London scarred by war, Eric Arthur Blair – better known by his pseudonym ...
Vineland, at its core, is preoccupied with the fate of America in the age of mass media and creeping authoritarianism. Pynchon’s novel is largely set in 1984, the year president Ronald Reagan was ...
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