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 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 ...
Author Eli Rallo discusses her new book, a series of essays titled “Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?” You Might Actually Be Able to Upgrade Your 'Incompatible ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
NEWPORT NEWS — Cookbooks, Bibles, bestsellers, and even a guide to belly dancing were among the roughly 150 books mixed in with trash next to a Main Street Library dumpster Friday morning. According ...
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 ...
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 ...
What Are the Percy Jackson Books About? Imagine a world where modern Greek gods have children with the powers of demigods. That's the fantastical concept at the center of the Percy Jackson and The ...