Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To hear PEN America and Moms For Liberty speak about the dangers of a society curtailing free speech, you may need to squint to ...

PEN America's latest report on book bans is glaring, but "Matrix" author Lauren Groff is on the front lines and opening a banned-book shop in Florida. (Smith Collection / Gado via Getty Images; Brad ...

PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, says that while the number of book bans in schools is declining, it’s still “rampant.” According to PEN’s report on book bans in ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Angel Saunders has been a writer at PEOPLE since 2023. She previously worked at iHeartMedia, IndieWire and ...

A pile of challenged books appear at the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. Attempted book bannings and restrictions at school and public libraries continue to surge, according to a ...

It’s official – and very depressing: Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to a new report on book bans. PEN America’s "The Normalization of Book Banning - Banned in the USA ...

PEN America released its list of the most-banned books of the 2024-2025 school year on Wednesday – and warned that the number of books challenged or banned in public school districts across the ...

Opponents of book bans across the nation see signs of hope in a pair of reports released this week, but they say the data also demonstrated the vast scope of the issue. The American Library ...

To hear PEN America and Moms For Liberty speak about the dangers of a society curtailing free speech, you may need to squint to see the differences. Both organizations profess an unwavering commitment ...

As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they stigmatize specific authors, Lauren Groff — author of “Florida” and the recent novel “The Vaster Wilds” — ...