New York PEN America, facing ongoing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala The gala, which is the organization's major fundraiser, raised more than $2 million ...

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 ...

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

A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school ...

PEN America’s 2025 Literary Gala did not merely acknowledge this truth. It embodied it. Held beneath the haunting majesty of the 21,000-pound blue whale at the American Museum of Natural ...

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

PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, released data in the fall that found more than 10,000 instances of schools or their districts removing books from ...

PEN America, the century-old free speech organization, brought in Ruffin to host soon after the WHCA withdrew its invitation, contending it wanted to focus on the achievements of journalism.

PEN America says in the 2023-24 school year, it found more than 10,000 instances of book bans, double from the year before. The ALA counts challenges to books from the media and librarians, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodi Picoult remembers when everyone seemed to praise her novel “Nineteen Minutes," a 2007 bestseller about a school shooting that now tops a list compiled by PEN America of ...