Sharyn Vane

Sometimes, it’s not a whole show that sticks with you. It’s one scene, a snippet that haunts you or makes you laugh, even after repeated views. For this

Who really knows you by heart? Is it the people who share your home or apartment? The co-workers you can communicate with in a single glance? The friends

Way before Awake, I first read Jen Hatmaker – where else? – on the Internet. Back in 2013, I didn’t know that she’d built a sizable following of women as

In a 10-7 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Llano County, Texas, an hour west of the state capital.

The Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer just published a summer section complete with a reading list. You know the kind. A blurb-y roundup of

The Trump administration is escalating its scorched-earth efforts to mold American culture, with a proposed federal budget that eliminates the National

In 2018, multiple women accused Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz of inappropriate advances and misogynistic behavior. Díaz’s employers at MIT,

The library of the U.S Naval Academy is the latest victim of censorship, with more than 380 volumes taken from shelves after a review. Academy leaders

The reshaping of arts and the humanities in the second Trump administration continues with a slew of new executive orders. The edicts call for dismantling

The Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been a lightning rod for controversy. Conceived of and created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four

The Librarians deftly illuminates the last four years of organized and systemic censorship, a reality as alarming as the piles of burning books the film

“The Arts … belong to all the people of the United States,” proclaims the 1965 legislation that created what is now the National Endowment for the Arts.

Writers and publishing professionals have long hated blurbs, but we may have actually reached a tipping point to get rid of the practice

The Trump Administration axed one legal avenue for fighting censorship, announcing Jan. 24 that it dismissed 11 federal complaints arguing that book

Though readers are an increasingly rare breed, publishers are putting out more books than ever. And of the countless thousands of books published this

The steamroller of censorship in 2024 ushered in more school and library book bans along with more censorious legislation. Disputes over Gaza derailed

PEN America is searching for new leadership after weathering months of criticism over its treatment of the war in Gaza. CEO Suzanne Nossel announced Oct.

It’s Banned Books Week again, and those on the front lines have one request: Fight. Legal action has expanded to defend public libraries in addition to classrooms, authors have joined librarians in organizing to preserve student access, and…

If the headlines about book-banning have you wondering “How’d we end up here?” To Be Destroyed has the answers. This documentary on censorship, which premiered Aug. 11 on MSNBC, covers everything from parents’ attempts to brand books with LGBTQ…

Gabino Iglesias should be a household literary name, and his newest novel, , should make it happen. Iglesias’ last book, The Devil Takes You Home, earned a slew of industry awards. In 2023, he became the first Latino author to win a Bram Stoker for…