Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, and the Authors Guild have filed an amended complaint in Penguin Random House v. Robbins, refining their challenge to Iowa SF 496, a book banning law about public school libraries. The case has been litigated since 2023. The complaint will now challenge nine banned books: 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Native Son by Richard Wright; Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult; The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang; Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson; […]
