Most Viking stories followed the oral tradition, meaning they were spoken stories passed on from person to person, and rarely written down. Unsurprisingly this led to major variations in how these ...

The Icelandic Sagas tell of Erik the Red: exiled for murder in the late 10th century he fled to southwest Greenland, establishing its first Norse settlement. The colony took root, and by the mid-12th ...

The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person's right to read under the First Amendment and to ensure free access to information. Every year, ALA's Office for ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s push to eliminate so-called “beardos” from the armed forces is drawing criticism from service members who say the policy tramples religious freedoms and ...

Fans of superheroes, hard-boiled detectives, and sci-fi who came of age in the 1930s through the 1970s were accustomed to asking store proprietors where they stocked their comics. And if they ran ...

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Common Sense Media offers the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based ratings and reviews. Our timely parenting advice supports families as they navigate the challenges and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those ...

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A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train ...

Amazon released a new firmware update for the 11th and 12th-generation Kindle e-readers last week. It has removed one of the last ways that users could back up Kindle books and remove the encryption ...

Though Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has seen an exodus of Black residents over the past 15 years, one woman hopes to create a beacon for her community. By Dodai Stewart Photographs and Video by Nicky ...