Banned, Restricted & Controversial Books

Why texts are challenged, censored, mythologized, or misunderstood.

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Why Books Get Banned

Enter the hidden machinery of censorship: why societies remove books, how the Catholic Index of forbidden books worked, why suppression sometimes turns into publicity, and where legitimate curation ends and censorship begins.

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