Surveys indicate 82%-97% of book challenges go unreported and receive no media coverage, according to the American Library Association. When David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “big five” ...
When I first learned about Katherine Rundell’s “Impossible Creatures” (after critic Ron Charles praised it in the Washington Post), the U.K. fantasy novel wasn’t yet available here in the States. SEE ...
January 11, 2023 • All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir for teens and young adults about growing up Black and queer, appeared on many "best books" lists when published in 2020. It's being challenged in some ...
The Sunshine State led the nation in school book bans for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new report released Friday. There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school ...
Mark Twain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. William Shakespeare. These names share something more than a legacy of classic literature and a place on school curriculums: They’re just some of the many authors ...
Mr. Stein writes the Substack newsletter The End of My Career. My two books didn’t do what was expected, which was to have people buy them. I have felt guilty about this failure since they were ...
When David Shelley, the CEO of Hachette, one of the “big five” publishing companies, was a teenager, he was living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain and under a law called Section 28. The measure, which ...