Imagine a world without Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel, Maus, Toni Morrison’s beloved Beloved, and Margaret Atwood’s prophetic The Handmaid’s Tale.
Actually, you don’t have to imagine it.
It’s America today.
Those books and more than 2,500 other unique titles have been banned as Republicans ramp up their war against freedom of expression and the First Amendment.
Sometimes there are explosive school board meetings where waves of angry parents yell about books they haven’t even read.
Other times, just a single person can cancel a book, as in the case of the Florida woman who recently managed to get “The Hill We Climb” banned. “The Hill We Climb” is the hopeful poem about America written by the acclaimed young poet Amanda Gorman for the 2020 presidential inauguration.
But we’re fighting back.
The New Republic has been a leader in defending the First Amendment and American democracy for more than a century.
This fall, we’re loading up vans with banned books and going on a road trip like no other—the Great “Banned in the USA” Bookmobile Tour of 2023—to distribute books to readers in the states most impacted by these bans.
We have a very ambitious goal of sending out at least five bookmobiles and handing out 10,000 banned books.
But we can’t do it without YOUR help.
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