Critics Right and Left Protest Book Removals
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The federal Bureau of Prisons said it was prompted by a report that mentioned that since most prisons did not catalog their library materials, books that incite violence and hatred could infiltrate the shelves.
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AUTHOR SALMAN Rushdie has expressed outrage at the British government&#39;s refusal to criticise last week&#39;s protests by Sikhs against the staging of the play Behzti at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers are coming to the defence of Prime Minister Paul Martin over accusations contained in a book written by Sheila Copps.
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The government report will be competing against books about Shakespeare, George Washington and an ex-convict.
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Tony Blair and Michael Howard hurl book insults at each other as they clashed over David Blunkett's criticisms of ministers.
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Some protesters-in-waiting seem to think that their right to free expression can&#39;t be separated from the right to trash New York City&#39;s Central Park.
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Mexican officials tried Wednesday to calm a growing furor over a government-distributed comic book guide for migrants that critics charge amounts to instructions on how to illegally cross into the United States.
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Who says people don&#39;t care about books? For the second year in a row, controversy has swirled around the National Book Awards.
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The nation's two biggest bookstore chains, Barnes &amp; Noble and Borders, say angry customers are accusing them of political bias as the retailers struggle to keep up with demand for a best seller that questions John Kerry's military service in Vietnam.
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A liberal advocacy group's print ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus drew a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the aisle on Monday.
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By Alan Riquelmy, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 8--Visions for land surrounding the Columbus Public Library clashed Wednesday night as various speakers expressed their different dreams.
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Two authors who unsuccessfully sued the publisher of &quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot; for copyright infringement have been given permission to challenge their defeat in court, court officials said Wednesday.
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A racism watchdog calls for a Tintin adventure to be removed from the shelves of a leading bookshop.
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A Republican state lawmaker countered a Senate colleague's dispersal of an anti-polygamy book by passing out materials to fellow legislators defending the practice as natural and not necessarily harmful.
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A small group of authors (including a Nobel Prize winner and a couple of perennial best-seller writers) dare to hit the shelves this month.
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The eviction of a newspaper reporter from a baseball press box for blogging about a game while it was in progress has stirred a debate about First Amendment and intellectual property rights.
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Newspaper is criticized for writing that recording industry wants to criminalize copying music to a computer. RIAA and even some of the group's biggest critics say Post got it wrong.