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For banned books week, the Forward celebrates the champions of literature including Judith Krug, Judy Blume, Allen Ginsberg and Suzanne Nossel.

In one scene in Kevin Macdonald’s Guantanamo drama, The Mauritanian, the lead character sits in his cold, cramped prison cell inside the infamous US prison in Cuba.  As his guards enter the room, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the titular Mauritanian played by Tahar Rahim, bursts with joy, giving his captors high fives, as they greet him in turn with warmth. If not informed by Rahim’s intense portrayal of Slahi’s undiminished humanity, the scene may have appeared unsettling to the viewer. Slahi was after all in jail without charge and subject to torture whilst there. Instead Slahi, in his re...