Banned Books Week at Planet Word
This week, visitors to Planet Word will confront an unusual sight in the Library: books wrapped in paper, their covers obscured, the word “BANNED” stamped across them. Banned Books Week…

Prison Reading
So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…
Dramatic image of Library gallery

Banned Books, Again
Planet Word is located in the DMV — that’s the junction of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia — so we need to track what’s happening around us in…
A bookshelf in the Library at Planet Word with a selection of books, some of which have been challenged or banned across the country.

Banned Books
If you’ve been following the “word news” lately, you’ll know that the big issue of the last few weeks has been book banning. Wait a minute, you might be excused…