The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, essays from a celebrated poet, and a story about a woman sexually attracted to airplanes.

Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever This is the first time a judge found that an AI company's use of copyrighted material is fair use.

The Supreme Court has sided with religious parents who want to pull their children out of the classroom when a public school lesson uses LGBTQ storybooks.

We spoke with The Murderbot Diaries author Martha Wells about Apple's new TV show based on her beloved sci-fi books, her upcoming fantasy novel Queen Demon, and more.

The Supreme Court on Friday backed a group of religious parents who want to opt their elementary school children out of engaging with LGBTQ books in the classroom, another major legal win for ...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of parents who wanted to opt their children out of instruction with storybooks that address gender identity and sexual orientation.

A parent, an attorney and an educator weigh the court’s ruling and what it could mean for the rest of the nation Montgomery County Public Schools must allow students whose parents do not want them ...

Topline The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for parents to broadly object to content in schools that they find objectionable on religious grounds, a ruling that centers on books with LGBTQ ...

Religious freedom case decided by Supreme Court as parents challenge Montgomery County Public Schools' policy on LGBTQ books in curriculum and the elimination of opt-out provisions ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

At Atelier Devauchelle, artisans repair damaged books, some of them hundreds of years old.

Bluestockings Cooperative, the radical bookstore on the Lower East Side, is running out of books. The worker-owned collective faced eviction in 2023 after neighbors complained that its mutual aid ...