An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. In the long, complicated history of literary censorship in the United States, no one ...

Harvard Square bookstores which have continued to sell Fanny Hill will be "virtually defenseless" in criminal prosecution if the book is ultimately found "obscence, impure, and indecent," a spokesman ...

In 1963, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson at the time, a teenage Massachusetts boy spent 95 cents to buy a novel written in the 18th century. That may sound like a benign purchase, even an ...

Michael Price wants to be perfectly clear. The executive director of the Goodspeed Opera House says there will be no nudity — full frontal or otherwise — in its production of “Fanny Hill.” No breasts.