Banned Books Week, held from October 5-11, highlights censorship and celebrates the freedom to read. Despite an increase in book challenges, a 2022 poll found that 71% of Americans surveyed oppose ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Stephen King has become the most banned author in U.S. schools, according to PEN America’s 2024–2025 report. Over 6,800 books were removed, primarily in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, often as ...

What was Russell M. Nelson's net worth? All we know about Mormon Church President's books and career as Heart Surgeon President Russell M. Nelson, the global head of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Step-by-step builds beat full-spec instructions for AI coding. AIs can destroy code as quickly as they create it. Use AGENTS.md, screenshots, and refactoring to keep projects stable. Last week, I put ...

Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift ...

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists. Earlier this year, we began adding a new feature to our articles — ...

Microsoft-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) OpenAI's artificial intelligence models scored high enough to earn a first-place human ranking at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in ...

Charlie Kirk’s books and podcasts have skyrocketed to the top of charts across nearly every major platform after the 31-year-old conservative activist was assassinated last Wednesday. Kirk – the ...

With The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s third and final season coming to an end, fans of the Prime Video series are turning to Jenny Han’s sacred summer texts for clues about where Belly (Lola Tung), Conrad ...

A conversation with the writer and activist about living in a nation where those who lead are often disinclined to read—let alone write—meaningful books. Rebecca Solnit, the nimble and adventurous ...

It’s true, summer’s essentially over. But if you’re sad about all the beach days you didn’t take, let the thought of sweater weather boost your spirits: cozy afternoons spent wrapped in blankets, ...