U.S. lawmakers reintroduce legislation that would support “evidence-based reading instruction, well stocked and staffed school libraries, family literacy programs, a wide range of reading materials, and the freedom to choose what to read.”
Future-Proofing Equality: UK Children’s Publishing Braces for the U.S. Playbook
Can children’s publishing stay inclusive as US book bans spread? A UK symposium sounds the alarm and explores solutions.
Freedom to Read Advocates Sound Alarm on Plan to Review Library Collections
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett demand that public libraries review their collections for “age-appropriateness” and for compliance with a controversial Trump executive order on gender identity.
Writer Boualem Sansal, Held for a Year, Released by Algeria
In a surprise move, Algeria’s president suspends the 2011 German Peace Prize-winning author’s prison sentence.
Kristenn Einarsson Is Stepping Away: Almost
The Freedom to Publish lead at IPA, the founding managing director of WEXFO, the World Expression Forum, will focus on the ‘democracy-reading’ connection full-time now. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Give the Readers What They Didn’t Know They Wanted’ t will seem odd at first. So central a personality has Kristenn Einarsson been to the International Publishers Association, to …
Frankfurt: IPA’s Gvantsa Jobava on the Defenders Award
The IPA’s new Defenders Award will honor those who defend freedoms of expression, publishing, and reading.
Censorship: PRH’s ‘Banned Wagon’ Goes to Washington
Handing out copies of books banned by right-wing censorship efforts, the PRH ‘Banned Wagon’ is in its third tour of duty.
PEN America’s Censorship Report: ‘A Disturbing Normalization’ of Book Bans
The leading message of this year’s PEN America ‘Banned in the USA’ report is about an insidious rise in ‘normalization’ of censorship.
Writer, Blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah Released From Egyptian Prison
The British-Egyptian writer and blogger highlighted last year by English PEN and Arundhati Roy, was pardoned and released Monday.
Publishers, Authors Win New Court Ruling Against Florida’s ‘HB 1069’
‘Effectively ending the book banning provisions in Florida House Bill 1069,’ a new ruling is cheered by publishers and authors.