A new report has found that the number of banned non-fiction books doubled during the 2024-2025 school year in the US. PEN America analysed the 3,743 unique titles removed from school libraries... Read more »
The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has called for renewed efforts to diversify the school curriculum in England, warning that young people are growing up in a society where “doors are closing”... Read more »
Too much of the literature taught in UK schools is putting children off reading and thrillers should become part of the curriculum, one of the world’s biggest selling authors has argued. Lee... Read more »
Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star cycle may turn out to be even larger in scope than his six-volume autofictional bestseller, My Struggle. Four books deep, this gargantuan work of supernatural existentialism is... Read more »
A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by the Beano comic. Year 5 pupils at Riverley primary school in Leyton, east London, won the accolade... Read more »
In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for... Read more »
Book News: PEN America report zooms in on school year 2023–2024 book bans
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Book News: PEN America report confirms school book bans are surging
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Book News: Book bans live on in school district now run by democrats
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