Below is a list of suggested readings on issues of censorship. More readings will be added to it regularly. Please check back often!

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Aldgate, Anthony, and James T. Robinson. 2005. Censorship in Theatre and Cinema. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Ayala, Francisco J. 2010. Am I a Monkey?: Six Big Questions about Evolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Brandon, James R. 2006. "Myth and Reality: A Story of 'Kabuki' during American Censorship, 1945-1949." Asian Theatre Journal 23(1):1-110.

Burnham, Linda Frye, and John Fleck. 1991. "An Unclassified Number An Interview with John Fleck." TDR (1988-) 35(3):192-197.

Case, Sue-Ellen, and Holly Hughes. 1989. "A Case concerning Hughes." TDR (1988-) 33(4):10-17.

Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick. 2004. Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Durland, Steven, and Tim Miller. 1991. "An Anarchic, Subversive, Erotic Soul: An Interview with Tim Miller." TDR (1988-) 35(3):171-177.

Erickson, Jon. 1990. "Appropriation and Transgression in Contemporary American Performance: The Wooster Group, Holly Hughes, and Karen Finley." Theatre Journal 42(2):225-236.

Glanville, Jo, and Index on Censorship. 2010. Brave New Words: Is Technology the Saviour of Free Speech? Vol. 39, Index on Censorship. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd.

Goldman, Kevin A. 2006. "Limited Times: Rethinking the Bounds of Copyright Protection." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154(3):705-740.

Hart, Lynda. 1992. "Motherhood According to Finley: 'The Theory of Total Blame'." TDR (1988-) 36(1):124-134.

Houchin, John H. 2009. Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Jacobsen, Carol. 1991. "Redefining Censorship: A Feminist View." Art Journal 50(4):42-55.

Johnson, Katie N. 2006. Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kubiak, Anthony. 1998. "Splitting the Difference: Performance and Its Double in American Culture." TDR (1988-) 42(4):91-114.

Lange, David. 2003. "Reimagining the Public Domain." Law and Contemporary Problems 66(1/2):463-483.

Laufe, Abe. 1978. The Wicked Stage: a history of theater censorship and harassment in the United States. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co.

Lunney, Glynn S., Jr. 2001. "The Death of Copyright: Digital Technology, Private Copying, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act." Virginia Law Review 87(5):813-920.

Meyer, Richard. 2000. "'Have You Heard the One about the Lesbian Who Goes to the Supreme Court?': Holly Hughes and the Case against Censorship." Theatre Journal 52(4):543-552.

Miller, Tim, and David Román. 1995. "'Preaching to the Converted'." Theatre Journal 47(2):169-188.

Negativland. 2003. "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain." Law and Contemporary Problems 66(1/2):239-262.

Overn, Michael, and Elinor Fuchs. 1989. "Finley Facts or Fictions?" TDR (1988-) 33(4):8-10.

Padian, Kevin. 2008. "Trickle-Down Evolution: An Approach to Getting Major Evolutionary Adaptive Changes into Textbooks and Curricula." Integrative and Comparative Biology 48(2):175-188.
———. 2009. "Ten Myths about Charles Darwin." BioScience 59(9):800-804.

Parkes, Adam. 1996. Modernism and the Theatre of Censorship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Penkower, Monty Noam. 1977. The Federal Writers’ Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Pramaggiore, Maria T. 1992. "Resisting/Performing/Femininity: Words, Flesh, and Feminism in Karen Finley's 'The Constant State of Desire'." Theatre Journal 44(3):269-290.

Prime, Rebecca. 2008. "'The Old Bogey': The Hollywood Blacklist in Europe." Film History 20(4):474-486.

Rossman, Gabriel. 2004. "Elites, Masses, and Media Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy." Social Forces 83(1):61-79.

Schechner, Richard. 1993. "TDR & the NEA." TDR (1988-) 37(2):7-11.

Schechner, Richard, and Karen Finley. 1988. "Karen Finley: A Constant State of Becoming: An Interview." TDR (1988-) 32(1):152-158.

Schneider, Rebecca, and Holly Hughes. 1989. "Holly Hughes: Polymorphous Perversity and the Lesbian Scientist. An Interview." TDR (1988-) 33(1):171-183.

Smith, Craig R. 1989. Freedom of Expression and Partisan Politics. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
———. 2000. The Quest for Charisma: Christianity and Persuasion. Westport, CT: Praeger Press.
———. 2004. The Four Freedoms of the First Amendment. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.
———. 2011. A First Amendment Profile of the Justices of the Supreme Court. Rome, Italy: John Cabot University Press.
———. 2011[1996]. Silencing the Opposition: How the Federal Government Suppressed Freedom of Expression in Times of Crisis. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Sova, Dawn B. 2004. Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas (Facts on File Library of World Literature). New York: Facts on File.

Tamblyn, Christine. 1991. "No More Nice Girls: Recent Transgressive Feminist Art." Art Journal 50(2):53-57.

Thomas, David, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne. 2007. Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ziolkowski, Theodore. 2009. Scandal on Stage: European Theatre as Moral Trial. New York: Cambridge University Press.