Hachette’s ‘Raising Readers’ initiative will have authors, illustrators, and translators sign messages in adult books on ‘fostering a lifelong habit of reading.’
The 75th US National Book Awards, in a Time of Worry
This year’s National Book Awards ceremony comes amid Trumpian threats of legal action against authors and journalists in the United States.
US Election Eve: PEN America’s Book Banning Report
Calling US book bannings ‘tragic for young people,’ PEN America, four days before the 2024 US election, cites a 200-percent rise in censorship.
Banned Books Week: A Renewed Court Challenge to Iowa
After an appeals court ruling upholds the First Amendment in school libraries, the Big Five and others renew their lawsuit of the state of Iowa.
Freedom to Publish: AAP Awards Belarus’ Januškevič Press
The Association of American Publishers honors a Belarusian publishing house working from Poland in exile for the freedom to publish.
During US Book Banning Week: A New Resolution in Congress
Banned Books Week in the United States: PEN America hails two Congress members for a new resolution on literary censorship.
US Supreme Court: AAP, Authors Guild File Brief on Sexual Content Law
Banned Books Week: Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild, and others file an amicus brief with US Supreme Court.
Censorship: PEN America Sees US Book Bannings Triple
As Banned Books Week begins the US, PEN America reports increases in the number of books banned from public school libraries this year.
Banned Books Week: PRH’s ‘Banned Wagon’ Rides Again
Penguin Random House’s ‘Banned Wagon’ hits the road for a second year, with an expanded route to more communities facing censorship.
Censorship Action: US Publishers and Authors Sue Florida
The newest of the book-censorship lawsuits in the United States says Florida’s sexual-content House Bill 1069 ‘must be stopped.’