Literary and human rights organization PEN America gathered for its annual gala, a high-profile event with guests including Seth Meyers and Paul Simon this year.

Rhode Island signed into law the Freedom to Read Act on July 10. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a ...

Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled pages of book titles that could be restricted through new content ...

Suzanne Nossel, who led PEN America for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she is leaving her position as chief executive of the free-expression advocacy organization. In January, she ...

According to a new study by nonprofit organization PEN America, schools have seen a 200% increase in book banning from 2023-2024. These are the books that have been most-banned during the 2023 ...

More than half of books banned during the last school year featured or were about people of color or members of the LGBTQ community, according to a report released Thursday. PEN America, a ...

In an era that devours nuance and shames intellect, the right to speak, write, and think freely is no longer a given—it is a battle. PEN America’s 2025 Literary Gala did not merely acknowledge ...

Sarah Jessica Parker, Taye Diggs, Jodi Picoult and more took the stage at PEN America's gala to criticize book bans and the Trump administration.

Much of the spike PEN America found in its report is from Florida and Iowa, which saw about 8,000 book bans due to state laws. And the challenges to books have not gone unnoticed.

More than a third of books banned last year featured fictional characters or real person of color, a new analysis from PEN America shows.

A new PEN America analysis of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year shows which stories were disproportionately removed from shelves — and debunks “exaggerated” claims about books ...