California has made progress in third-grade reading proficiency, but needs to accelerate the pace to meet the demands of the ...

Not long after the National Endowment for the Arts canceled a $25,000 grant to his organization, Ilan Stavans, founder of Massachusetts-based nonprofit publisher Restless Books, began to worry about ...

Home for the holidays, best-selling author Catherine Lanigan is looking forward to cooking Thanksgiving dinner with her family in LaPorte. She also will talk Saturday about her books and how to get ...

You just know that after spending 16 years as a defense attorney and another 12 years on the bench, retired Pima County Superior Court Judge Barbara Sattler has some stories to tell. But when she sat ...

Bestselling author Stefanie Stahl (61) apparently plans to give up writing books after her next work. She told the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" (NOZ): "I'll make my point one last time. I'm good at that ...

Raymond B. Blake's Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity has won the 2025 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. This year, in recognition of its 25th anniversary, ...

An author who published eight novels before her writing career took off said it was partly down to the "enormous community" of book lovers on social media. Sangu Mandanna's ninth book, set in her home ...

Tracey Lindberg is a citizen of As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and is from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation in British Columbia. She is a scholar, writer and law professor. Her debut novel ...

Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday night after being briefly suspended by Disney last week, a decision celebrated by many on Monday night, including Jake Tapper. But the CNN host doesn’t ...

Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift ...

Update Published Oct. 2, 2025: This article, originally published in 2024, has been updated to reflect the latest findings in PEN America’s banned books report, “Banned in the U.S.A.” The list at the ...

Before Stacy Willingham became the New York Times’ bestselling author of “A Flicker in the Dark,” she was a University of Georgia student majoring in magazine journalism, laying the groundwork for a ...