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Oct 30 2024: More than 1,000 figures from the literary and entertainment industry – including several Nobel laureates, Pulitzer prize, and Booker prize winners – have signed an open letter against “illiberal and dangerous” cultural boycotts.
The letter was released by the ...
Oct 27 2024: For two years, the Republican Pennridge School Board, north of Philadelphia, governed with a burst of ideological energy. It instituted book bans and curriculum rewrites — the sort of politics pushed nationwide by Moms for Liberty, the conservative advocacy group allied...
Oct 23 2024: An online petition and statement condemning the unauthorized use of creative works to train generative AI has reached 13,500 signatories, including novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, Saturday Night Live actor (and upcoming National Book Awards host) Kate McKinnon, musician Thom ...
Oct 21 2024: Anti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.
Oct 18 2024: The University of Cincinnati announced on Thursday that the University of Cincinnati Press will shut down on June 25. In a release, the university said that it had "determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible...
Oct 16 2024: Pope Francis has written an autobiography, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced. Hope, which will be published globally in January next year, is the first such book written by a sitting pope.
Oct 14 2024: The Australian classifications review board has been ordered to review its assessment of the book Gender Queer, after the federal court found the board had ignored, overlooked or misunderstood public submissions for it to be censored.
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