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Back in September, in a measure designed to “prevent immorality”, the Taliban closed down the internet in Afghanistan. This was the latest step – after a…

Volunteers from the LiTEArary Society read and donate copies of Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes to pre-schoolers in Grafton, West Virginia. Credit: Chris…

Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works…

A federal judge has ordered books about gender and race be returned to the shelves at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and…

The children’s publisher Puffin is hurriedly contacting UK schools and local authorities after it discovered that a website address included in a popular children’s book series…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Anna Holmes has never forgotten reading Judy Blume’s Forever as…

Journalist Grace Byron’s debut novel Herculine (Simon & Schuster), out next week, follows an unnamed protagonist from New York to the would-be promised land of her…

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and…

Selecting a book to read can sometimes be overwhelming: countless books are published every year, and there are countless more published years ago that we haven’t…

August 30, 20255 min readTurn the Page on Summer: August’s Essential Book PicksCheck out this collection of nonfiction and fiction books recommended by Scientific AmericanBy Brianne…