Books can do what nothing else can

And how a Texas-based Medium writer is fighting book bans. (Issue #442) Base Image: Library at Maniguh, Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, via Hamara Gaon Ghar Foundation/Wikimedia Commons The United States is wrestling with a new wave of book censorship lately. Educators and librarians are being fired for refusing to remove books from shelves; parents are insisting that even innocuous children’s books like Dawn McMillan’s I Need A New Butt!