In seeking to ban “The Fixer,” however, Szalai isn’t just joining a recent national trend. She’s also targeting a book that was at the center of a previous generation’s attempt to ...

“The Fixer” holds special historical significance in this battle, as the novel was also at the center of a 1982 Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of school library book bans.

US school district removes classic novel ‘The Fixer,’ about a 1911 blood libel Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s book on antisemitism has been challenged before and led to a Supreme Court ...

Bernard Malamud, author of “The Fixer,” a 1966 novel about an antisemitic blood libel. (Left: Nancy R. Schiff/Getty Images via JTA.org) Andrew Lapin and Philissa Cramer. Late last year, a mom in South ...

“Maus” briefly became the public face of book bans after a Tennessee district removed it from the middle school curriculum, and has also been targeted in districts in Missouri. “The Fixer” was briefly ...

Being snoopy has its advantages: it’s fun, deliciously scandalous, you know all the good gossip first, and, in the new book “The Fixer” by Josh Young and Manfred Westphal, it might just pay ...