• S1E5 – Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia, on their Free Speech Library

    S1E5 – Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia, on their Free Speech Library

    Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia work at the Dawitt Isaak Library in Malmö, Sweden, a library dedicated to authors who have been censored, repressed, or forced into exile. We discuss our shared passion for the free exchange of ideas, and the similarities and differences between their library and the Banned Books museum. You can…

  • The museum re-opens!

    The museum re-opens!

    After two months of lockdown, Banned Books is open to the public again. We have been hard at work upgrading the museum, adding to our collection and creating new merchandise, so come check out the new place! Open, as always, Fri-Sun 11-18. We have added new photos of historic book-burning events… …more furniture for your…

  • S1E4 – Captain Roy D, on QAnon and Amazon De-listing

    S1E4 – Captain Roy D, on QAnon and Amazon De-listing

    Denis Poljakov is the owner of Russow Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia. He talks about his lifelong business in books, including his experiences smuggling contraband books across the border, his arrest and internment in a Russian prison camp, and how he restarted his life in Estonia.  You can find the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,…