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According to a new study by Pen America, there were 3,362 instances of book bans in school classrooms and libraries – with more than 40% of all cases occurring in FloridaBook bans in US public schools have increased by 33% over the last school year, ac…
Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted overUK politics live – latest updatesIt was an act of mean-spiritedness that shocked people across the political spectrum. In April, a UK government minister …
A funding shortfall means the country’s library service will operate with reduced hours, and is ‘unable to purchase new books or take requests at present’Northern Ireland’s library service has said that it does not have sufficient funding to buy new bo…
Editor Andrew F Gulli found Italian-set work written in pencil by American writer among papers in Library of CongressA previously unknown short story by Truman Capote, discovered written in pencil in a notebook then carefully deciphered and transcribed…
‘In [a] polarised world, it is important our sector is clear in its opposition to censorship’ says the Cilip report, published as services increasingly asked to remove booksNew guidelines designed for libraries in the UK urge staff to provide materials…
Seventeen authors have joined a new lawsuit alleging ‘systematic theft on a mass scale’ by the programJohn Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale”, the latest in a wave of lega…
Move comes as education laws restricting teaching of race, sexuality, and other topics are being implemented across the USA Texas teacher was fired after assigning an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to her middle school class, in a move th…
Exclusive: in a new book, Hutchinson describes incident in which the former New York mayor put his hand ‘under my blazer, then my skirt’Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump aide turned crucial January 6 witness, says in a new book she was groped by Rud…
Organisers are also seeking artworks and manuscripts while authors are invited to donate signed first-edition copies of their books for an online auction in NovemberDonations of rare books, artworks, manuscripts, photographs and ephemera are being soug…
Exclusive: Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump ordered White House guests who tested positive to remove masks in Oval OfficeDonald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the fir…