Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago.

PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...

A new tool from PEN America and #DefendResearch lets users check any text for words or phrases banned by federal government agencies.

Jason Low, the co-owner and publisher of Lee & Low Books, thinks it’s the perfect time for you to take action against literary censorship.

‘Güllistan Yarkın’s academic writings challenge official narratives and have made her a target of the authorities of Türkiye, who continue to muzzle independent voices. The case against her sends a ch...

(MIAMI) — PEN America and the Florida Freedom to Read Project expressed alarm today over a new Department of Education directive that could turn the state’s already troubling book censorship into a “d...

Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets.

A new policy disturbingly echoes those found in Russia, China and Iran, which use strict visa compliance rules to punish journalists and media outlets that report on their governments unfavorably. …

More than 600 books were banned from schools in 10 of Florida’s districts during the 2025–26 academic year.

Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 10 international press freedom organizations are calling on Israeli authorities to protect the safety and fundamental rights of Israeli investigative journalis...

Amid the administration’s crackdown on immigration and rising anxiety over detentions and deportations, join us in uplifting Hispanic culture and history through literature. Below is a curated list of...

Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson has been tracking book bans since 2021. But her work is much more than simply counting–it’s helping motivate other people nationwide to get to work protecting the right to read. ...

PEN America today announced the selection of award-winning novelist, essayist, and professor Phil Klay to serve as its president and chair of the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old writers organiza...

PEN America today announced the selection of award-winning novelist, essayist, and professor Phil Klay to serve as its president and chair of the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old writers organiza...

Ja’net and Kiana chat with poet Charles Jensen on grief-gazing, memoirizing, and the liberation in hybridity in his memoir, SPLICE OF LIFE.

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

Join PEN America Florida for a special screening of First They Came for My College, a new feature documentary that follows the story of New College of Florida during its unprecedented takeover by Gove...

In a joint letter to Marco Rubio, PEN America called for the immediate release of unjustly imprisoned Vietnamese journalists and writers.

Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.”

The removals were reported in just 10 of Florida’s 67 school districts. Three are in Central Florida: Orange, Polk and Sumter counties.

Elliot Page and Drew Denny, the narrator and director of the documentary SECOND NATURE, will join trailblazing evolutionary biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden, authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson ...

Term-limited, hard-right governor instituted an ideological infiltration of universities by placing allies in powerful posts

Isabel J. Kim talks about her novel Sublimation and the sense of “alienated intimacy” she wants to bestow on readers.