Challenging what they call a spike in efforts to ban books from school and public libraries, particularly books with LGBTQ+ themes, Los Angeles County supervisors moved forward Tuesday with an effort ...

THE KEYS OF ST. PETER (380 pp.)—Roger Peyrefitte—Criterion Books ($4.50). Truly scandalous books are rare these days, particularly books about religion. This novel is truly scandalous. It has already ...

Educators and students have been finding creative ways over the past few years to circumvent book bans in states and schools across the country. Inside and outside the classroom, vested teachers, ...

As books are banned and challenged across the country, they might have a much larger impact than the removal of a few titles: They may be changing the makeup of entire school libraries, due to the ...

Astra Publishing House, the new company backed by Beijing-based Thinkingdom Media Group, has hired children’s literature expert Leonard S. Marcus as editor-at-large to help develop Astra’s children’s ...