The start of the 2026 school year is kicking off with three new titles added to Utah's growing list of books banned from ...

Books have always possessed an unsettling power to challenge authority, reshape minds, and ignite revolutions. Throughout ...

Banned Books Week 2025 is taking place from October 5 to 11, bringing attention to the stories challenged and removed from schools, libraries, and bookstores — and acknowledging that everyone should ...

Famous banned books are cultural flashpoints that push us to think critically about the harms, experiences and consequences of our human experiences. Famous banned books disappear from shelves in ...

With Americans’ free speech threatened by politicians’ bluster and federal agents swarming the region, welcome to Banned Books Week. Is there a better time to mark the annual observance of censorship ...

It's Banned Books Week, an annual event from the American Library Association that brings attention to censorship in the United States. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged ...

WASHINGTON — This week marks Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of literature that has drawn the ire of governments around the world. The American Library Association puts on the weeklong event ...

There were 6,870 separate instances of book bans across 23 states due to “sexually explicit” or “un-American” material during the 2024-2025 school year, according to PEN America. These bans are ...

Monday, September 23 doesn't merely mark the first workday of the autumn season. It's also the start of Banned Books Week. Introduced by the American Library Association in 1982 in response to an ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin independent bookstore has been selected as one of nine stops across the country for the Banned Wagon, a national initiative to promote literacy and connect people with titles ...

Book censorship is … becoming the norm? For those who honor the work and dedication of our librarians, booksellers, authors and fellow readers, that’s the disturbing conclusion of a just-published PEN ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... I got a call today from an author friend. He’s distraught. “What’s wrong?” I ask. “My books—they haven’t been banned.” “So—that’s good, ...