![]() ![]() In the Kingdom of Jordan, for example, a bookstore is dedicated entirely to banned titles. ![]() Many banned titles become more popular after the ban thanks to an underground market for legitimate or pirated copies, or increased notoriety. Thankfully, banning books usually makes reading them more appealing. Lawsuits like the ones for Noir Canada (Canada), and Roberto Carlos em Detalhes (Brazil) are another common tool for removing books from circulation where outright censorship is not possible. Public pressure often leads to book banning in schools and libraries due to content deemed inappropriate for children-including picture books, such as Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni (Italy). Books are still being censored today.įrom Animal Farm (United Arab Emirates) to The Satanic Verses (too many countries to list) to all works by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Liu Xiaobo (China), classic books are off-limits in certain countries around the world.Įven in countries with laws protecting the freedom of speech and press, books are being effectively banned. Think that book banning has been consigned to history? Sigh. And Pope Paul IV published one of the first book ban lists with his Index of Prohibited Books in 1559, a list that was updated until 1948. The contents of the famed library in Alexandria were used as fuel for the public baths in 640 AD. In 35 AD, Homer’s The Odyssey was banned by the Roman emperor Caligula because it contained dangerous ideas about freedom. For almost as long we’ve been writing, governments and religious groups have attempted to censor what we read.
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