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10/10/2026

We couldn't let Banned Books Week pass without talking about the inimitable Toni Morrison, whose books are a regular fixture on top 10 banned books lists.

Sula, one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years, is a modern masterpiece about love, kinship, and living in an America birthed from slavery.

09/10/2026

Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, comes after civilization's collapse. Fifteen years ago, a pandemic wiped out most of the population. The novel follows a group of traveling actors who visit settlements of survivors, performing Shakespeare and music.

We're highlighting Station Eleven for Banned Books Week because this novel about art and survival has also faced bans and challenges in school districts.

08/10/2026

We're beyond thrilled for Anne Carson! Well-deserved! 🎉🎉

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Anne Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada. In 1981, she published her doctoral thesis in Classics entitled ‘Odi et Amo Ergo Sum’, and has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry writing with translation work and teaching at various universities. Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist’s obsession with words and the poet’s desire for new meaning. She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work. Her translations from Classical Greek may be regarded as independent works in their own right. Among these is her interpretation of Sappho’s poem fragments, ‘If Not, Winter’ (2002), along with tragedies such as Sophocles’s ‘Electra’ (2001) and ‘Antigone’ (2015) and Euripides’s ‘Bakkhai’ (2015).

In the 1990s, Carson published a series of notable works. Among these is ‘The Glass Essay’ in ‘Glass, Irony, and God’ (1995), which demonstrates the potential of the long poem where genre boundaries are seen to blur.

The same decade saw the publication of another work, often heralded as Carson’s greatest, entitled ‘Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse’ (1998). This demonstrates her eminent ability to actualise the classical literary tradition. With a precise feel for contemporary idioms and experiences, she takes as her starting point poem fragments by the sixth century BC Greek poet Stesichoros concerning the winged red monster Geryon.

Throughout her entire authorship, Carson with a light touch explores the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value to her. Bearing witness to this is ‘Float’ (2016), a work consisting of twenty-two chapbooks on different subjects, capable of being read in any order. Another is ‘Wrong Norma’ from 2024, a diverse combination of texts with a strongly performative aspect in which Carson crosses over into various artistic and academic fields. Her collaborations with visual artists and choreographers and with opera and theatre directors demonstrate the freedom with which she relates to literary expectations and rule systems. It is this that lies behind the outstanding importance her work since the 1990s has had for the international art and literature scene.

Anders Olsson
Chair of the Nobel Committee

Learn more about the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature: https://bit.ly/4hnkhNO

06/10/2026

We're moving Banned Books Week to the stage 🎭 with A Raisin in the Sun, which has been facing bans and challenges for more than 60 years.

Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever.

06/10/2026

Happy publication day to You Don’t Need a Smartphone and The Most of Nora Ephron!

You Don’t Need a Smartphone by August Lamm is a revelatory manifesto about why going low- or no-tech will improve your life—and how to make it happen! Cover illustration by the author.

The Most of Nora Ephron collects foundational pieces of the author’s writing, including feminist essays and screenplay excerpts. Cover design by Abby Weintraub Design and photography by Elenaseibert

05/10/2026

James Baldwin's books have often come under attack by those who would challenge or ban them in libraries and schools. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and The Fire Next Time have historically and presently faced book bans and censorship challenges.

This Banned Books week, we invite you to join us as we reflect on Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time 🔥.

Published one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation and the emerging Civil Rights movement, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and still sheds light on the way we understand race in America today.

Have you read any Baldwin banned books? Let us know below 👇

05/10/2026

We continue our Latine Heritage Month book recommendations with some of our great frequently banned books by Latine authors! The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, and The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez have each faced challenges.

The acclaimed coming-of-age classic The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become.

Love in the Time of Cholera, the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author, follows the 50-year-long love story of a man and woman, once hopelessly in love, as one marries another and the other goes from affair to affair.

The Book of Unknown Americans is a stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American. Henríquez seamlessly interweaves a story of star-crossed lovers with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.

03/10/2026

Picture this: the apocalypse happens. The world has been blasted by plague, and the survivors need a leader. Do they turn to Mother Abagail, who strives to build a peaceful community, or Randall Flagg, who relies on chaos and violence?

Today is the 48th anniversary of Stephen King’s landmark novel THE STAND!

01/10/2026

We're excited for a look at these first images from the upcoming Netflix series adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, coming December 17th!

30/09/2026

Start October off right with a reread of Stephen King’s CARRIE ahead of the new adaptation’s release on October 7! We got a preview of the show, and it’s going to be good 👀