#school-libraries

#school-libraries

The banning of books, it would be easy to think, is a relic of less enlightened ages. The Catholic church, in a last spasm of rectitude, added Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia and Simone de Beauvoir to its Index of Forbidden Books during the 1940s and 50s, but then abandoned the list, which had lasted four centuries, in 1966. Public book burnings by Nazis or McCarthyites, too, might be assumed to be nothing more than a baleful warning from the past.