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Booksellers and library workers face unconsitutional restrictions and ‘extreme punishments’, plaintiffs argue

A woman at the centre of a widely derided complaint attended rallies and protests with extremist groups and posted antisemitic content as she joined far-right book ban activism, reports find

Poet, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal

Bob Graham Education Center, a K-8 school in Miami-Dade County, restricted access to Amanda Gorman's acclaimed poem "The Hill We Climb," which she read at President Biden's inauguration, for elementary-aged students after a parent issued a formal complaint on the grounds that the poem was "not educational" and included indirect…

No one needs to tell Salman Rushdie about the cost of free speech.

A surprise speaker at the Pen America gala, the author said ‘if it had not been for these people, I most certainly would not be standing here’

Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.

Rushdie, whose attendance had not been announced beforehand, spoke briefly, and dedicated some of his remarks to those who came to his help last August while on stage at a New York literary festival.

Salman Rushdie has made an emotional and unexpected return to public life, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award

A new lawsuit against a Florida school board marks a “first-of-its-kind challenge to unlawful censorship”.

Officials in Escambia County, Fla., removed 10 books from school libraries and restricted access to more than 150 others. Writers' advocacy group PEN America calls the lawsuit the first of its kind.