PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, says that while the number of book bans in schools is declining, it’s still “rampant.” According to PEN’s report on book bans in ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Angel Saunders has been a writer at PEOPLE since 2023. She previously worked at iHeartMedia, IndieWire and ...

PEN America's latest report on book bans is glaring, but "Matrix" author Lauren Groff is on the front lines and opening a banned-book shop in Florida. (Smith Collection / Gado via Getty Images; Brad ...

An update after two sexually explicit books were removed from a Lexington school library. The books in question are “It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie Harris and “Kiss Number 8″ by Colleen Venable. This ...

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 ...

It’s official – and very depressing: Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to a new report on book bans. PEN America’s "The Normalization of Book Banning - Banned in the USA ...

In the 2022-2023 school year, Florida led the nation in the surge of book challenges and bans, according to free expression advocacy group PEN America. This year, the number of bans has more than ...

The number of public school bans in the U.S. in the 2022-23 school year 33% rose 33% over last year, the report says 40% of those bans listed happened in Florida Does it seem like there are a lot of ...

Opponents of book bans across the nation see signs of hope in a pair of reports released this week, but they say the data also demonstrated the vast scope of the issue. The American Library ...

As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they stigmatize specific authors, Lauren Groff — author of “Florida” and the recent novel “The Vaster Wilds” — ...