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TIME coined the word "bibliocaust" in 1933The taboo against book-burning was highlighted when, not long after, the United States experienced its own period of fear about books that didn’t fit in ...
You need to *see* and *hear* the Virginia elected officials set forth their plan to burn books they oppose — one of which the American Library Association named a "Best Book for Young Adults ...
The Nazis held their first book burning on May 10, 1933, destroying texts they deemed “un-German,” including those by Jewish, liberal and leftist authors. Eighty-eight years later, Philadelphia ...
“The truth itself is under attack,” writes Richard Ovenden in his timely 2020 book, “Burning Books.” But this is not just an American phenomenon. The urge to purge has a long history.
Other reports said that books from the "Twilight" series were also burned. In sum, yes, the top post on Reddit did show book burnings that happened in 1933 in Germany, and in 2022 in Tennessee.
"June Book Burning," the ad read. "During pride month, New England White Network is going to party like it’s 1933." ...
Book burning has now come to America. It is book burning in a new form. I would call it stealth book burning. But in some ways, it's even more insidious than the public ritual of book burning.
Their book-burning was a protest, Wayne said. “It was a piece of performance art to underscore what is really going on,” he said in a telephone interview from their shop, Prospero’s Books.
Book burning taking place in Opera Square, Berlin on May 10, 1933. It's the last day of Banned Books Week, when American Library Association calls attention to the freedom we have to read what we ...
Dickow says he can't help but see the comic book burnings of the '40s as a little paradoxical, as they happened just a few years after we defeated the book-burning Nazis.
The burning happened after Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Make Your Home Among Strangers and a professor at the University of Nebraska, spoke at the university about the book and her personal ...