Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

Nestled in the Northern Catskills, the tiny village of Hobart, New York, is home to around 400 residents, and millions of fascinating characters, all stacked high on shelves. Hobart is a book village.

Children’s books are bodies of work that thrive on specificity. With just the right use of humor, wit, and alliteration, authors like Theodor Seuss Geisel, Lewis Carroll, and Margaret Atwood, among ...

BLACK HAT ASIA – Singapore – Windows fibers, little-known components of Windows OS, represent a largely undocumented code-execution pathway that exists exclusively in user mode — and is therefore ...

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one. By Alexandra Alter Book bans in public schools continued to surge in the first half of this school ...

Ranking Colleen Hoover’s 26 books is no easy task, as her novels have wide appeal and are all beloved by readers across the United States, as evidenced by their long stays on the New York Times and ...

Anyone can start a book club, celebrities included. While celebrity-run book clubs are nothing new, the more recently formed ones seem to be revitalizing the method of reading Oprah Winfrey pioneered ...

The American Library Association announced Thursday that the number of books challenged in libraries across the U.S. spiked 65% in 2023 over the previous year, reaching the highest level ever ...

Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization. By Alexandra Alter After several years of rising book bans, censorship efforts continued to surge ...

Avid readers know the struggle: You purchase a beautiful new copy of a book, only to realize that you already own it. If you’re having trouble remembering which tomes comprise your collection, you're ...