Elizabeth Blair writes: “‘Book ban’ is one of those headline-ready terms often used by the news media for stories about the surge in book challenges across the US. ALA launched its annual Banned Books Week in 1982. There are banned book clubs. States have introduced or passed laws that’ve been called bans on book bans. Meanwhile, many people fighting to get books removed from school libraries are not fans of the term book ban. What does it actually mean to ban a book today? The answer depends on who you ask. Here are a handful of definitions from people entrenched in the issue.”