I am a teacher who loves teaching, but as the new school year begins, I have become a reluctant culture warrior. I am fighting against a reflexive cancel culture that calls for the banning of books and authors in often capricious ways. And I am convinced that it is our students who will lose in this war. For decades, I have woven my twin passions of literature and educating adolescents into a rewarding practice of reading with young people. I believe in the power of literature to move us and to transform us. That belief led me to become a...