Richard Price: Books help students empathize with the experience of others

It’s not ‘porn’ that the book-banners are going after, but the existence of other people.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Four of nine books that have been removed from schools in the Canyons School District and placed under review, Nov. 23, 2021. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin.

| March 1, 2022, 5:00 p.m.

| Updated: 10:47 p.m.

Richard Price: Books help students empathize with the experience of others

It’s not ‘porn’ that the book-banners are going after, but the existence of other people.

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