TODAY is the 50th anniversary of the court ruling that overturned America’s obscenity laws, setting off an explosion of free speech — and also, in retrospect, splashing cold water on the idea, much discussed during Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, that judges are “umpires” rather than agents of social change.
In honor of this anniversary, I started reading Reading Lolita in Tehran today.
While it embraces a different meaning of free, I am also reading, though much more slowly, The Three Pillars of Zen.
Neither of these is this month's Hungry Book Club selection. Mama will be reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Namesake, which I read last month, while I will be reading her short stories in Intrepreter of Maladies.
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