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The Erie County Public Library promotes awareness of banned books, including through exhibits created for the Lake Erie Lit Festival help in September. Reasons for book challenges range from profanity ...

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 ...

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, ...

Banned Books Week, held from October 5-11, highlights censorship and celebrates the freedom to read. Despite an increase in book challenges, a 2022 poll found that 71% of Americans surveyed oppose ...

The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship ...

What do bed and breakfast owners, vampire-hunting bartenders, senior citizen sleuths and nepo babies have in common? Probably not much, but they’re featured in some of the new books we think you ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

There’s a typical mourning period that comes with the debut of a new season, one that hits particularly hard at the end of another glorious summer. The beach umbrellas are put away, the smell of ...

Charlie Kirk’s books and podcasts have skyrocketed to the top of charts across nearly every major platform after the 31-year-old conservative activist was assassinated last Wednesday. Kirk – the ...

Damali Peterman, left, is the author of "Be Who You Are to Get What You Want: A New Way to Negotiate for Anyone Who's Ever Been Underestimated." She joined Shazi Visram, founder of Healthynest and ...

It’s true, summer’s essentially over. But if you’re sad about all the beach days you didn’t take, let the thought of sweater weather boost your spirits: cozy afternoons spent wrapped in blankets, ...