Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

Here are the winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

By Literary Hub | April 10, 2025

The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

By James Folta | April 10, 2025

<em> Goodnight, Moon </em> is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children's book stamps.

Goodnight, Moon is going postal. To celebrate, check out these children's book stamps.

By Brittany Allen | April 10, 2025

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

Ariel Courage Explores a Systematic Legacy of Environmental Contamination and Neglect in the United States

By Ariel Courage | April 10, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

“PEN America’s defense and advocacy must be rendered vigorously and equitably, regardless of who sits in power.”

By Dinaw Mengestu | April 10, 2025

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By Emily Temple | April 9, 2025

Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

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On the Opaque Origins and Tumultuous Ancient History of Homer’s Odyssey

By Daniel Mendelsohn | April 9, 2025

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

Priya Vulchi Considers the Lifespans of Literary and Political Friendships

By Priya Vulchi | April 9, 2025

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”

By Sarah Viren | April 9, 2025

How Lewis Michaux Channeled a Passion For Knowledge Into Building His Harlem Bookstore

How Lewis Michaux Channeled a Passion For Knowledge Into Building His Harlem Bookstore

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson on Her Great-Uncle's Contribution to the Intellectual Empowerment of Black Communities

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson | April 9, 2025

The Publishing Industry Has a Serious Waste Problem, and It Needs to Stop Now

The Publishing Industry Has a Serious Waste Problem, and It Needs to Stop Now

Bookseller Lucy Kogler Has Some Ideas to Make the Book World a Lot More Sustainable

By Lucy Kogler | April 9, 2025

Ten books that get the theatre world right.

Ten books that get the theatre world right.

By Brittany Allen | April 8, 2025

21 Attorneys General are suing to save America's libraries.

21 Attorneys General are suing to save America's libraries.

By James Folta | April 8, 2025

Here's the shortlist for this year's International Booker Prize.

Here's the shortlist for this year's International Booker Prize.

By Brittany Allen | April 8, 2025

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