According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

Seeking to ban books like “Bathe the Cat” has less to do with morality than it does with a yearning for control.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school ...

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from ...

PEN America, an non-profit organisation that defends freedom of expression and human rights in the US and around the world, "has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide ...

PEN America says in the 2023-24 school year, it found more than 10,000 instances of book bans, double from the year before. The ALA counts challenges to books from the media and librarians, ...

PEN America’s 2025 Literary Gala did not merely acknowledge this truth. It embodied it. Held beneath the haunting majesty of the 21,000-pound blue whale at the American Museum of Natural ...

Suzanne Nossel, who led PEN America for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she is leaving her position as chief executive of the free-expression advocacy organization. In January, she ...

PEN America hides behind the false universalism of free speech, but institutions always choose whom to protect. Israel’s assault on Gaza has shuttered every one of its schools and universities ...