USA TODAY staff on the value of reading banned books like "The Bluest Eye," "Gender Queer" and "Looking for Alaska." ...

Plus, a new PEN America study, screenings of ‘The Librarians,’ the Books Unbanned program and a read-in are planned.

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue. By Tawada Yoko. Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. New Directions; 192 pages; $16.95 and £16.99 Archipelago of the Sun. By Tawada Yoko. Translated by ...

Efforts to remove or restrict books are threatening one of the foundations of democracy, writes Howard County Council ...

"A book ban, to us, is any time a book that was previously available to a student is no longer available based on the content ...

Reading in public has become meme fodder online. Some longtime book lovers say the scrutiny has made their hobby come off as ...

Welcome to Books We've Loved, a new limited series from Book of The Day. Every episode, we will dig into some of our favorite ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

What do bed and breakfast owners, vampire-hunting bartenders, senior citizen sleuths and nepo babies have in common? Probably not much, but they’re featured in some of the new books we think you ...

This fall, I’m assigning J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis in my politics and geography class on a deeply liberal and historically activist campus. I can already ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. For this package, we’ve been asking authors and illustrators to discuss the decisions influencing a single page or ...