Tag: banned books

The World | Author Viet Thanh Nguyen weighs in on banned books debate

February 3, 2022

A Tennessee county school board agreed to remove Art Spiegelman’s book “Maus” from its eighth-grade curriculum for its “rough, objectionable language” and “unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its

KQED Forum | ‘Maus’ Among Latest Titles Banned in Some American School Districts

February 2, 2022

A Tennessee school board last week voted to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel Maus from an 8th grade course on the Holocaust. And that’s just one of many examples

The Post-Trump Future of Literature

December 22, 2020

Viet Thanh Nguyen shares his thoughts on the changes of political literature in the coming era for this New York Times op-ed. Donald Trump is an anti-literary president. It’s clear