Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 school year. A new documentary, “The Librarians,” examines the experiences of ...

Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with acclaimed novelist Ha Jin about his new book, “Looking for Tank Man: A Novel" in The World’s ...

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, ...

San Diego Public Library's 'Books Unbanned' program gives out-of-state teens free digital access to over 250 banned titles nationwide.

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin—was "the most ...

Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer ...

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...

The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime fixture in the library technology industry, will shutter.

Although contemporary debates focus mainly on what we should and should not be reading, it’s just as important to ask why and how we read. Eugene Peterson said that putting the Bible in someone’s ...

An article in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal is an article that drives change. For your field, it might be the key to solving a problem. For the wider community, it is a contribution to ...