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Gender Queer Tops the American Library Association's Ranking of the Most Challenged Books Since 1990
Ellen Hopkins has 14 of the 153 titles, more than any other author, while To Kill a Mockingbird ranks No. 65.
Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption
The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.
Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir
Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.
Shakespeare's First Folio Found in Saint-Omer
The story of the Saint-Omer copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, catalogued for two centuries as a worthless eighteenth-century reprint before a librarian looked twice.
Books Preserve a Civilization's Literary and Artistic Heritage
We reflect on how books preserve literary and artistic heritage. The identity a civilisation carries forward each time it keeps a book alive from one generation to the next.
The Book Lady: How Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Gifted 332 Million Books
Celebrating Dolly Parton's literacy legacy, the Imagination Library she built for her father, who never learned to read.
Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence
Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.
A Social Reading App Now Has Five Million Members, and Most of Them Are Women Under 40
The company's own figures, and a survey of its own users, are the case it is making against the idea that young people have given up on books.
Authors May Have to Keep Records of How They Write Their Own Books
HarperCollins' chief executive says no software can reliably tell a human manuscript from an AI-assisted one, and that a book written with AI help might not be copyrightable at all.