How Barnes & Noble went from villain to hero
After years on the decline, Barnes & Noble's sales are up, its costs are down — and the same people who for decades saw the superchain as a supervillain are celebrating its success. In the past,...
View ArticleFlorida rejects 54 math textbooks over 'prohibited topics' including...
Florida's education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks from next year's school curriculum, citing alleged references to critical race theory among a range of reasoning for some of the...
View ArticleUkrainian publisher Vivat perseveres during Russian invasion
Vivat is Ukraine's second largest publisher, established in 2013 following the merger of two former publishing houses. Its head office is in Kharkiv, Ukraine's largest city after Kyiv, located in the...
View ArticleKharkiv's cultural life defies constant Russian bombardment with first book...
Ukraine's indomitable spirit was on full display over the weekend in Kharkiv, the nation's second largest city, when the publication of a new book was presented in a bomb shelter amid interspersed...
View ArticleThe artists of Ukraine find their voice in a cry of resistance
More than 200 years after Francisco Goya commemorated Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies in "The Third of May 1808", his groundbreaking work on the horrors of war, Ukrainian painters,...
View ArticleA library's canceled romance book club calls attention to growing censorship
A censorship battle at an Oklahoma library is calling attention to what critics say is the hypocrisy of legislative attempts to prohibit discussions and materials about LGBTQ issues. Literary circles...
View ArticleDon Winslow announces retirement from book writing to focus on political videos
Bestselling author Don Winslow has announced that the two already-written sequels to his current novel City On Fire will be his last books. Winslow says he will devote his time to launching digital...
View ArticleTexas residents are suing their county after books were removed from public...
Seven residents in Llano County, Texas, are suing county officials, claiming their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when books deemed inappropriate by some people in the community and...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize: 2022 winners of book prizes
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. See BookBrowse's awards page for winners of the book prizes including Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert,...
View ArticleRobert Goolrick, whose books explored tragedy and endurance, dies at 73
Robert Goolrick, a New York advertising executive whose firing at 54 liberated him to write a lacerating memoir of childhood sexual abuse and other family secrets, followed by acclaimed novels about...
View ArticleWhy do people, like, say, like so much?
According to an article in The Guardian, saying the word 'like' has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is...
View ArticleTexas librarians face harassment as they navigate book bans
For those librarians working at schools and at public libraries, the pressure to keep some challenged books off the shelves is growing. And some Texas librarians say the insults and threats through...
View ArticleCongress holds second hearing, focuses on censorship in classrooms
Approximately six weeks after holding a hearing to investigate the recent surge of book bannings in public school libraries and classrooms around the country, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil...
View ArticleCongress holds second hearing, focuses on censorship in classrooms
Approximately six weeks after holding a hearing to investigate the recent surge of book bannings in public school libraries and classrooms around the country, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil...
View ArticleU.S. Book Show: Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov on wartime reality for...
The 2022 U.S. Book Show opened this morning with a conversation between Jim Milliot, editorial director of show sponsor Publishers Weekly, international editor Ed Nawotka and Andrey Kurkov, a...
View ArticleVirginia state delegate seeks restraining order against B&N over banned book
A book for a young adult audience that the American Library Association described as "the most banned book in the country," is now under scrutiny for rejection from bookshelves at private stores. A...
View ArticleHow Ukraine's greatest novelist is fighting for his country
The New York Times has an extensive profile on Andrey Kurkov, "Ukraine's greatest novelist" who has spent his life writing about realities so absurd they defy satire. This comment from the almost...
View ArticleUnburnable edition of The Handmaid's Tale to be auctioned for...
To raise awareness about the proliferating book banning and educational gag orders in some U.S. schools, Margaret Atwood and Penguin Random House have partnered to create The Unburnable Book, a...
View ArticleWomen's Prize Trust names 'bold and ambitious' Discoveries shortlist
The Women's Prize Trust has announced its Discoveries program 2022 shortlist, featuring six "ambitious and imaginative" authors at the start of their writing journeys. The shortlist and their...
View ArticleDetention of bookseller in Belarus
The International Publishers Association, the Federation of European Publishers and the European and International Booksellers Federation have strongly condemned the detention of Belarussian publisher...
View Article