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Virginia Pye’s latest novel is set in 1899 Boston, but it resonates here and now.

Before aldermen unanimously voted in favor of the resolution, Greg Fletcher (R-1) asked, “This removes Jim Baxter from anything to do with our insurance next year. Correct?” 

Author Virginia Pye returns to James River Writers with “The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann.”

QUINCY — Quincy aldermen will consider an ordinance making the city a "Safehaven City of the Unborn."

Banned Books Week comes at a moment of rising censorship, free speech organizations say, but conservatives claim the concern is overblown.

The ultraconservative Texas judge who ruled the FDA never had the authority to approve mifepristone recently used the Comstock Act, a 19th century sexual purity law still on the books, to uphold a Texas university’s decision to prohibit drag performances on campus against First Amendment objections. Legal historian Mary Ziegler argues that this development signals how extreme conservatives hope to use the Comstock Act as a linchpin in their efforts to censor speech about sex.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, progressives wondered what other rights might be targeted. A ruling from Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suggests free speech is next.

New laws banning library books in states like Florida follow the sorry American tradition of censorship. Librarians now, as in the past, are fighting for the public's right to read.

Since 1982, libraries around the country have participated in Banned Books Week, an annual celebration during which we spotlight books that have been banned or challenged. While we’re always serious

Book banning, the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly accessible locations (e.g, libraries), by their destruction (including the