Books and literature

Calling all bookworms, storytellers, artists and explorers: the Miami Book Fair is back, and full of events for all guests, big and small. 

During eight days each November hundreds of authors and thousands of readers converge on Downtown Miami for the nation’s premier literary festival.

“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. “Forever” by Judi Blume. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. All have been pulled from the shelves of some Florida schools, according to the latest list compiled by the Florida Department of Education tallying books removed by local school districts. Recent changes to state law have empowered parents and residents to challenge school library books and...

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

“The book uses the same techniques as the show to encourage speech and 20 milestones, all through a playful story!”

Banned Books Week started in 1982 and draws attention to censorship.

Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide.

A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents. The agreement reached Thursday settles a lawsuit that argued that the district unlawfully decided to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBTQ+ content. Under the agreement the School Board of Nassau County must restore access to...

The 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission to improve literacy through her Imagination Library book giveaway program. And in recent months, it has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky.

A federal judge next week will consider a renewed attempt to shield Escambia County School Board members from testifying about a decision to remove the children’s book “And Tango Makes Three” from school libraries.

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93. She was one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” which was censored and even burned.

Richard Behar’s new biography, “Madoff: The Final Word,” takes readers into the fraudster’s final years in prison, and all that came before.

Schools out but that doesn’t mean the pages have to stop turning. Here are some incentives to get your young ones to keep reading this summer.

Barnes and Nobles announced Tuesday that any child in grades 1 through 6 who reads at least eight books over the summer can receive a free book from a participating store.

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revenge Of the Tipping Point” will be published Oct. 1

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors, has died at age 92.

Author Paul Auster has died at age 77. Auster was a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1.” Auster’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his literary representatives. Auster completed more than 30 books, translated into dozens of languages. He never achieved major commercial...

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The association says that 4,240 individual book titles were targeted for removal from schools and public libraries — a sharp increase from the previous high of 2,571 in 2022.

Libraries across the U.S. are struggling to cover the cost of e-books, which have grown in popularity.