Since July 2021, PEN America has documented more than 22,800 cases of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school districts.
The latest report found that 3,752 unique titles were affected by bans in the school year that ended in June. The most banned titles included “A Clockwork Orange” and “Wicked,” while the most banned ...
"A book ban, to us, is any time a book that was previously available to a student is no longer available based on the content of the book," Meehan says.
Litquake returns for its 26th edition with events across the Bay Area, from poolside poetry to hip-hop Poe and Taylor Swift-inspired readings.
There was common theme with the New York Rangers following their 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on opening night ...
Taylor Swift's music includes references to famous novelists, playwrights, and poets, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, and Pablo Neruda.
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions. The Greats Long the leading Asian American ...
The “Downton Abbey” actress both wrote and stars in this show about Hollywood’s Ava Gardner. It’s a brave and complicated piece of theater.
"The legal system doesn’t have all of the answers to domestic violence, and neither does fiction, but my hope is that this book starts a conversation," writes ...
The Chicago Blackhawks open up their season with a favorable matchup against the defending back-to-back Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers.
The artists profiled in Grand Finales refused to consign themselves to what the author calls “Little-Old-Lady-Land,” and opted to keep searching, pushing, and trying new things.