On Wednesday night, “James” was awarded the Kirkus Prize for fiction. Everett's novel, which imagines Mark Twain's classic from the perspective of the escaped enslaved man whom Huckleberry Finn ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned ... the same period last year.
It is a “volatile” time for bookshops, according to Meryl Halls, head of the Booksellers Association. This coming Saturday is ...