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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current and former USA TODAY staff picked a challenged or banned book that was meaningful to them. These are their stories. As ...

Throughout history, certain books have been deemed so threatening to social order that authorities tried to suppress them, often ensuring their lasting influence through the very act of censorship ...

A Banned Books Week display is at the Mott Haven branch of the New York Public Library in the Bronx borough of New York City on Saturday, October 7, 2023. The organization Authors Against Book Bans ...

Chicago-based writer Veronica Arreola got a text in late May from a friend. It was a screenshot of her 2023 children’s book, ...

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 ...

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targeted ...

Let’s stop for a moment and pause to consider the smart bulb. Imagine going back 20 years and telling yourself that people will be putting computers capable of acting as web servers into ...

A painted truck stocked with banned books will visit Philadelphia this fall. The Banned Wagon, a mobile library of titles facing bans or challenges in the United States, is gearing up for its annual ...

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, ...