And yet they persist. More than that, they’re inspiring the next generation. The film follows several high school students at a public school in Granbury, Texas, who form a Banned Books Club and ...

If you have a big enough budget, there’s almost nothing money can’t buy for an independent author. Even if you can’t put a price tag on passion and talent, money can pay for fancy editors, thorough ...

Novelist Dinaw Mengestu has been elected president of PEN America, the literary nonprofit announced in a news release.

Obama, continuing a longtime tradition, posted a list of his favorite books of the year on the social platform X.

As the weather turns cold and the nights become longer, I can officially say that now is the very best time to curl up on a cozy ...

British readers couldn’t get enough of Richard Osman in 2025. The Impossible Fortune, the fifth novel in the television presenter–turned–author’s popular Thursday Murder Club series, was the ...

The English children’s author David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher following allegations of harassment, Reuters reports. HarperCollins UK severed ties with Walliams, ...

Jonathan R. Miller will admit with a laugh that a lot of the elements in his latest book, Animal Control, sound “ridiculous” when you try to explain them to someone. But for Miller—who has spent a lot ...

Ruhl’s first attempt at a novel, which he started in law school, was “absolutely awful,” he says. “It’s under my bed. I won’t show it to anybody.” A later experiment with screenwriting, Revenge of the ...

Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is headed to the small screen, Variety reports.

The New York Public Library revealed its list of the city’s most checked-out books of 2025, with Percival Everett’s James the most popular title among readers across all five boroughs. While the New ...

Taking the No. 2 spot in PEN America’s report was Jodi Picoult’s school-shooting novel Nineteen Minutes, followed by Patricia McCormick’s Sold at No. 3, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a ...