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When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the ...
He wrote influential books exploring the dramatic changes wrought by independence, bringing in overlooked perspectives — what ...
Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something ...
When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...
Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's ...
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PEOPLE can exclusively share the cover of 'Erased,' a new book that examines the impact of the patriarchy on American society.
As part of its annual report, the ALA unveiled its list of the 10 most “challenged books” of 2024, starting with George M. Johnson's “All Boys Aren't Blue,” and also featuring “Gender Queer,” “The ...
More than 70 percent of book challenges in 2024 came from organized groups and government officials, according to the 2025 ...
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...
A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval ...
Seven of 10 of the most banned books in American libraries featured LGBTQ+ characters, according to the latest banned books ...