Banned Books Week has begun and new titles are dominating this year's top challenged list. Banned Books Week is Oct. 5-11 and this year's theme is, "Censorship Is so 1984. Read for Your Rights." The ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...

Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize. By Elizabeth A.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Spooky season is officially upon us, which means the official countdown to Halloween is officially on, and it’s now perfectly okay to indulge all your inner ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

A series of children's books has been pulled from school library shelves after a web address printed in the back was found to link to explicit content. The Spy Dog, Spy Pups and Spy Cat books by Derby ...

Weston Brown's story is showcased in Kim A. Snyder’s new documentary 'The Librarians' Courtesy of 8 Above and THE LIBRARIANS documentary DP Amy Bench Weston Brown returned to his hometown in Texas to ...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- A look at what's happening around the New York Jets: 1. Fields day: Look through the team's quarterbacking history, and you will find mostly statuesque pocket passers. Now look ...

A series of children’s books is being removed from the shelves in Hampshire after it emerged that rogue weblinks in some editions were leading to pornography. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death. Credit...Portrait by ...