The PEN report, which counted book removals in school and classroom libraries during the 2022-2023 school year, found 3,362 cases of books being removed, a 33 percent increase over the previous ...

Sarah Jessica Parker, Taye Diggs, Jodi Picoult and more took the stage at PEN America's gala to criticize book bans and the Trump administration. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 📚 ...

Jennifer Finney Boylan, an author and L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate, was elected on Monday president of PEN America, one of the most significant organizations defending free speech in the country.

Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

Book bans in public schools rose by 33% in the last academic school year, with many efforts targeting titles perceived as “sexual” or “inappropriate,” a new report from the literary and ...

As book bans are becoming more prevalent in school districts across the US, there’s now hard data to show the extent of those bans courtesy of an updated report from PEN America. The number of ...

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday.

School book bans show no signs of slowing, PEN America finds The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the the report.

PEN reps said the final count for the 2023-2024 school year will be released later this fall, along with a public Index of School Book Bans and “a detailed content analysis” of titles banned ...

The report, Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools, expands on two previous PEN America reports tracking the intensifying wave of book bans and laws aimed at ...

PEN America is out with a new report that found nearly 1,500 instances of book-banning across the United States in the first half of the 2022-23 school year.