USA TODAY staff on the value of reading banned books like "The Bluest Eye," "Gender Queer" and "Looking for Alaska." ...

The first week in October is Banned Books Week, and it prompted Hannah Harlow to reflect on her younger son’s love of dragons ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. For this package, we’ve been asking authors and illustrators to discuss the decisions influencing a single page or ...

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors ...

"Outrageous! MAGA Supporter Crashes Black Author Book Talk, Spews Racist Insults. The shocking video captures the chaos. #Racism ...

An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds silly. But in a new book, Justin Smith-Ruiu is dead serious about what we might learn from altered states. An intense exchange with Marilyn Monroe sounds ...

A hands-free “pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something,” would help. Her new novel is “Will There Ever Be Another You.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by In an email ...

Reality Winner never really had a chance to explain herself. After the young whistleblower leaked a classified 2017 National Security Agency bulletin about Russian election-meddling attempts to the ...

UPPER POTTSGROVE — Township commissioners told the developers of a proposed shopping center off Upland Drive that they absolutely do not want a connection to be made with State Street. In 2023, the ...

“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.” That is the ...

Looking back, I don’t know what exactly I was expecting when I opened “Request No. 1,” the PDF file containing the contents of Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th-birthday book. Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former ...

Asked to name a punk rock musician, most people would by rote memory spit out the names of the members of the Ramones, Clash, or Sex Pistols. Those with a deeper aural reservoir might cough up the ...