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The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other materials--most of [...]

The fear of fiction waxes and wanes, spiking every couple of decades like some kind of hysterical cicada. The current wave of book bans may be the worst since the [...]

THE SURGE IN BOOK CHALLENGES NATIONWIDE is having a chilling effect on school librarians, who are more likely to avoid buying books or to remove titles from collections because of [...]

For 2 years in a row, Publishers Weekly's An drew Albanese (a close observer of libraries) has named censorship efforts as the top story of the year, calling them 'a [...]

The PW-produced U.S. Book Show completed its run last week, Monday-Thursday, May 22-25, and though this was the third edition of the event, it was the first to feature in-person [...]

Library workers who provide services for people negatively impacted by the prison industrial complex (PIC) are proud of their work--even though it can be difficult--from starting and keeping programs going, [...]

This has been a notorious year of attempts to ban children's books by authors of color. But 2022 is also the year that Donna Barba Higuera's middle-grade novel The Last [...]

We're pleased to feature on this month's cover: Gilbert. Alex Willan, the goblin's creator, accepted the assignment from Mark Tuchman, SLJ's creative director. This time, the author/illustrator of the picture [...]

To kick off National Library Week in April, the American Library Association (ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) released its annual list of most challenged books from the year before, [...]

IN THE PAST month or so, China's tech giants have been showing off. https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/30/alibaba-breaks-itself-up-in-six , https://www.economist.com/business/2021/03/20/baidu-turns-to-personal-transport-for-growth , Huawei and SenseTime have all flaunted their artificial-intelligence (AI) models, which can power [...]

In June, BuzzFeed News released a bombshell report about TikTok. Engineers in China had repeatedly accessed the data of American users, contradicting the company's claims that its U.S. team had [...]

AT LEAST ON paper, Turkey's opposition has it all worked out. In policy documents the opposition bloc, headed by the CHP and IYI, a centre-right party founded by defectors from [...]

ALA announced new preliminary data that documents the continued rise in attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries during the first 8 months of this [...]

Defenders of intellectual freedom have been shouting it for more than a year: It is not about the books, and it is not going to stop at the books. As [...]

On June 25, ALA and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) called on their stakeholders to affirm their commitment to the Freedom to Read Statement in the wake of threats [...]

The director of the public library where I serve as children's librarian recently pulled a number of books that deal with sex and sexuality. The mother of an eight-year-old requested [...]

Tencent is a brilliant success story bedevilled by the splinternet E ARLIER THIS year it suddenly became clear what a subversive force WeChat could become. It happened on April 22nd, [...]

A new Twitter account highlights party support for ultra-nationalism W AR HAS made the Kremlin try harder to envelop Russians in a parallel information universe, in which Ukraine is run [...]

Go on, say it What the British find offensive has changed, again 'F UCKING' IS NOT what it used to be. Where once the mere presence of a 'fuck' would [...]

A professor's resignation highlights pressures to conform PETER BOGHOSSIAN, an untenured assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University (PSU), was one of the most vocal critics of post-modern ideology [...]

A hot topic at the Winter Institute of the American Booksellers Association? Censorship. There were 'stories of outrage,' according to Publishers Weekly coverage of the February event held in Seattle [...]

First Roald Dahl; now Ian Fleming. Censorship is not, it turns out, a simple matter. Both men had a very dark side. It isn't only the sexist and racist language [...]

Ask most information professionals what comes to mind when they hear the words 'information manipulation,' and you'll likely get only one response: censorship. While certainly a form of information manipulation, [...]

Despite strict controls, independent publishers are quietly flourishing THE BEIJING International Book Fair, which takes place in August, gives the better-known view of China's publishing industry: state-controlled and gargantuan. The [...]