Actress and author Hilarie Burton, who is working with PEN America and the Eleanor Roosevelt Center during Banned Books Week, ...

Book bans have slowly become normalized in recent years and a new report from PEN America shows the alarming consequences.

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen ...

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 ...

PEN considers a book “banned” if it was removed from the classroom or library circulation, either permanently or while the ...

PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, says that while the number of book bans in schools is ...

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 free ...

Since July 2021, PEN America has documented more than 22,800 cases of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school ...

The number of banned books is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24 but still far above the levels of a few years ago, the ...