Praise for On Book Banning
"Beneath the elegant prose of this small volume lies a vast urgency and passion about language, books, and human consciousness. The hot-button political debates—about freedom of thought and the value of open access, and the depredations of governments and activists to control both—are set against a background of deep yearning for connection between minds. Wells has given us a wise and powerful example of that very thing."
—Mark Kingwell, author of Question Authority: A Polemic about Trust in Five Meditations
“In this impressive book, Ira Wells provides an insightful and engaging discussion of the renewed embrace of censorship by both progressives and traditionalists and what it can mean for the possibility of building a more socially just and democratic society today. On Book Banning is a gem that I cannot recommend highly enough.”
—James L. Turk, Director, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University
Praise for Norman Jewison: A Director's Life"Norman Jewison: A Director's Life [is] a fascinating story told with verve and authority."
—Toronto Star
"To read Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life, is to wonder why this most consequential of directors wasn’t better known. A big thanks to Ira Wells for giving biography treatment to a major Hollywood creator who strangely never became a legend.”
—Forbes
“Ira Wells makes the persuasive case that Jewison deserves more fame than he has received, and along the way delivers a rollicking tale of Hollywood during Jewison’s most active years and plenty of backstage trivia.”
—Air Mail
“[A]n exhaustively researched look at the career of the country's most prolific, but least understood, filmmaker. The book is an ambitious, and frequently essential, endeavour.”
—Globe and Mail
“A thoroughly enjoyable and detailed look at a memorable life in film.”
—Library Journal
