Check the links for interviews with Tom Perrotta, Anna Dorn, Yann Martel, Xochitl Gonzalez, Jason Reynolds, Patrick Radden ...

If you look closely at the history, biography, memoir, and general-nonfiction honors, a noticeable pattern emerges.

A new report says nonfiction titles about identity, activism, and health are being banned from schools at rapidly increasing ...

Among the 3,743 unique book titles that were banned last school year, more than 1,000 of them were nonfiction.

A new report shows that the number of nonfiction books banned in U.S. schools doubled in the last academic year. PEN ...

Sharp nonfiction increase: Over 1,100 nonfiction titles were banned in 2024–25, a 15% jump from the previous year, often targeting activist or educational themes. Marginalized voices erased: 44% of ...

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Stories Stripped Away by Book Bans,” PEN America’s Freedom to Read team reports on “a surge in the banning of nonfiction titles” and an erosion of civil rights in public classrooms and school ...

Nonfiction bans double: PEN America found 29% of banned titles in 2024–2025 were nonfiction, up from 14% the previous year, covering history, health, activism, and biographies. Marginalized voices ...

On Thursday, the journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this post, published last year, Philip Gourevitch praised Alexievich's work and argued that nonfiction ...