It's that time of the year when we start thinking about summer plans and, in particular, summer reading. We've got our annual Summer Reading List special coming up soon, and this year it's the Banned Books Edition. Josh and Ray will be discussing some of those books, but they'd love to hear if there is a banned or challenged book you've got on your summer reading list. Tell us what the book is, what the controversy around it is, and why you plan to read it. If you make a good case for your pick, we might even invite you to discuss the book on air. In the meantime, please enjoy these episodes from the archive dealing with troubled tomes and controversial literature.
Troubled Tomes
| Episode Title | Guest | Related Content | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Reading the Troubled Past | Julie Napolin, Professor of Digital Humanities, The New School | Should We Abandon the Canon? | |
 | Summer Reading (and Misreading) | Maryanne Wolf, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Thomas Pavel, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Antonia Peacocke, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University | Reader’s Block and Bad Philosophy | |
 | Remixing Reality - Art and Literature for the 21st Century | David Shields, Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington | Remixing Reality: Art and Literature for the 21st Century | |
 | Your Brain on Literature | David Eagleman, Adjunct Professor of Psych/Public Mental Health & Population Sciences | Literary Minds | |
 | How Fiction Shapes Us | Joshua Landy, Professor of French, Stanford University | How Fiction Shapes Us |