Books and literature

Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $500 holiday bonuses from James Patterson.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Kamala Harris and breakout star Chappell Roan were among the year’s most talked-about people. Their names were also among the most mispronounced.

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its word of the year.

Award-winning author TJ Klune (“The House in the Cerulean Sea”) on when he felt able to quit his day job and when he first felt like he’d made it as a writer.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

“The book uses the same techniques as the show to encourage speech and 20 milestones, all through a playful story!”

Banned Books Week started in 1982 and draws attention to censorship.

Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide.

The 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission to improve literacy through her Imagination Library book giveaway program. And in recent months, it has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky.

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93. She was one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” which was censored and even burned.

Richard Behar’s new biography, “Madoff: The Final Word,” takes readers into the fraudster’s final years in prison, and all that came before.

Schools out but that doesn’t mean the pages have to stop turning. Here are some incentives to get your young ones to keep reading this summer.

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revenge Of the Tipping Point” will be published Oct. 1

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors, has died at age 92.

Author Paul Auster has died at age 77. Auster was a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1.” Auster’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his literary representatives. Auster completed more than 30 books, translated into dozens of languages. He never achieved major commercial...

The association says that 4,240 individual book titles were targeted for removal from schools and public libraries — a sharp increase from the previous high of 2,571 in 2022.

Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity.

Babies born this coming Saturday could get a birthday present featuring a guy who knows how to have fun — The Cat in the Hat.

The author of “Little Women” may have been even more productive than previously thought. A Northeastern University postdoctoral teaching associate believes he found work that Louisa May Alcott wrote under several pseudonyms for local newspapers in Massachusetts. Some of the 20 or so stories and poems found were also written under Alcott’s own name. One story written under the pseudonym...