Tag Archives: banned books week

Thank you to faculty and staff who shared a favorite banned book with us last week. The submissions prompted conversations, anecdotes, and memories of early reading. A group of us from the Library attended the Law School’s Block Party last Saturday and … Continue reading →

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was one of the most challenged books of 2008, and a favorite of Gaby Amador, Associate Director of Admissions at the Law School, who wrote: I read The Kite Runner shortly after its release … Continue reading →

Jonnell Simpson is the LexisNexis Account Representative who has worked with us at the Law School for many years. She chose a book by Judy Blume after laboring to decide which of the many books on the list she liked … Continue reading →

Ulysses was first published serially in The Little Review, an American arts magazine, from March 1918 through December 1920. Sylvia Beach, the proprietor of the famous Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co., published the entire manuscript in1922. The book made its … Continue reading →

Ken Kesey’s book was considered shocking when published in 1962, but is highly regarded today. The work served as the basis for a popular film in 1975 starring Jack Nicholson. Alex Magilli, Administrative Assistant at the Chicago-Kent Law Review, ‘warns’ … Continue reading →

Todd Haugh is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Law School: I must have a serious anti-authoritarian bent. Or prurient interests. Or both. That’s what I come up with when I read the list of banned or challenged classics on … Continue reading →

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published in 1960 and adapted into a popular film in 1962. It has appeared on the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s top ten most challenged books lists in 2011 and … Continue reading →

This week the Library’s blog posts will be devoted to the freedom to read as we celebrate all types of literary work during Banned Books Week, which begins today. The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom established this annual … Continue reading →