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In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Jonathan Alexander – an English professor with a scholarly interest in the interplay between sexuality and literature – for recommendations of young adult fiction books that feature LGBTQ characters. What follows is a list that Alexander, who has just…

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

Penguin Random House employs over 10,000 people across 20 countries - and anyone hired in the last 6 years was asked to complete a skills-based test.

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…

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.

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias 

The banning of books by the school district violates parents’ and authors’ First Amendment rights, lawsuit argues

Federal lawsuit condemns ‘ideologically driven campaign to push certain ideas out of schools’

Publisher Penguin Random House and PEN America have sued a Florida school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias