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PEN America’s 2023-2024 Index of Banned Books found 10,046 instances of individual books banned, affecting 4,231 unique titles.
Scene 1 The setting is a street corner in a residential neighborhood of the mid-1960s. The corner of a lawn…
PEN America’s 2022-2023 Index of Banned Books found 3,362 instances of individual books banned. This searchable banned book list includes…
PEN American Center today announced that it has joined Facebook, Google, Human Rights Watch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Berkman…
PEN America’s 2022 Banned in the USA report offered the first comprehensive look at banned books throughout the 2021–22 school…
As writers, editors, and artists we stand together today in solidarity and outrage at the murder of our colleagues at…
PEN America’s fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This…
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today at its Annual…
