The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

Jack has loved video games ever since sneaking a peak at his dad playing Age of Empires when he was a child, followed quickly by his first gaming acquistion - Super Mario 64 DS and a lime-green DS ...

This year’s longlist includes five books by writers who have published short fiction in The New Yorker: Susan Choi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karen Russell, Bryan Washington, and Joy Williams. Two ...

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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 ...

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• Book bans are on the rise as conservative parental rights groups fight what they believe is ‘wokeness’ in classrooms. • They typically target books about race and gender identity, and the election ...

Books are a gift, opening a door to the wide world. But not if you live in one of the U.S. communities where local school boards or state officials have cast certain books as scary monsters that harm ...

Katherine Spoon has received funding from the National Science Foundation. This research was assisted by a Social Science Research Council (SSRC)/Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science ...

Following a bereaved three-generation family over the course of one idyllic Nordic summer, Charlie McDowell's film version of Tove Jansson's 1972 novel is high on comfort and low on incident. It ...

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the finale of “Power Book II: Ghost.” Fans had a lot to unpack following the explosive final season of Starz’s hit “Power” spinoff, “Power Book II: Ghost,” ...