In 2021, libraries saw a record number of book challenges. So it’s fitting that while American Libraries looks for Call Number podcast’s new host, we re-air our sixth episode, “Banned Books.” This episode originally aired in October 2016 but its wisdom is—unfortunately—still applicable today. Former host Phil Morehart interviews James LaRue, the then-executive director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom; Sara Stevenson, a librarian at O. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas, who faced a book challenge over the John Green YA novel Looking for Alaska; and Marjane Satrapi, author of the award-winning graphic novel Persepolis, about how her book was being briefly banned at a Chicago high school.