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This absorbing history by a brilliant scholar and writer deepens our understanding of how censorship works. With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In 18th-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege.

Valladolid, 1624, Seminario para ingleses de San Albano. Monseñor William Sankey, jesuita censor de la Inquisición, llega con una misión: decidir si incluye en el Índice de libros prohibidos un volumen que se halla en la biblioteca del seminario: la edición infolio que reúne póstumamente treinta y seis de los dramas escritos por William Shakespeare. La tarea plantea a Sankey un difícil dilema moral, pues William fue su amigo íntimo, su alma gemela.

A deep-dive mini series exploring the many layers of Prano Bailey-Bond's horror film, Censor.

A Game Rage Magazine Interview Podcast with guests from every walk of life. No Holds Barred and Nothing is off limits.

"China Censors WeChat Rumors, including the One about Robots Taking Over" is from the June 24, 2016 Tech section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

On May 7, 1945, journalist Edward Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.

Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of, and a seal of approval from, the Production Code Administration. Formed in 1930 but not enforced until 1934, the Production Code was Hollywood’s official censorship system. Screenplays, books, plays, costumes, and even story ideas and song lyrics had to be cleared by the Code before they could be filmed, and Code staffers watched at every stage of the production process to ensure compliance.