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The Banned Books You Haven’t Heard About

Por: The Atlantic Life September 24, 2022

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When a book gets censored, it feels good to assume its sales will increase. But that’s not the whole story.Getty; The AtlanticSeptember 20, 2022At a packed school-board meeting near Rockford, Illinois, earlier this year, a woman waved blown-up images from Maia Kobabe’s illustrated memoir in front of the Harlem School District board. “If my neighbor were to give this to my child, guess what? He would be in jail,” she to scattered... + full article



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