Culture and Politics

The organization will donate books by authors who have been banned, starting with 20 schools in states where bans are most prevalent.

A group of authors, illustrators, agents, and editors have organized an auction to raise funds for those in urgent need.

Writing is an act of exposure, especially when it’s about something personal, political, and dangerous. But we write anyway.

The Trump administration has announced that creative writing fellowship grants will no longer be issued in 2026.

The Authors Guild won a victory when a New York federal court blocked the government’s termination of 1,400 grants to scholars and authors.

After President Trump fired the Librarian of Congress and head of the US Copyright Office, Congress has decided to step in and push back.

NEA grant recipients started receiving emails that their grants were terminated or withdrawn effective May 31, 2025.

The Department of Government Efficiency has terminated funding for state humanities councils in all 50 states.

All the tariffs just announced last week or this week largely don’t apply to books, but that doesn’t mean prices won’t go up.

Last year its budget was $211 million; its funding is important for state humanities councils.

The Dept. of Education has dropped complaints filed during the Biden administration related to the removal of books from school libraries.

Hachette launched two new imprints: Basic Venture, for business and economics titles, and Basic Liberty, for conservative titles.

Trump’s first term led to increased printing costs; a second term could bring cuts to arts funding and more litigation surrounding books in schools and libraries.

TL;DR: It doesn’t.

Who pays for the service and who decides how to incorporate feedback?

Colin Kaepernick, who founded his own publishing company in 2020, has now launched Lumi.

More than 1,500 authors, illustrators, audiobook narrators, and translators have launched Authors against Book Bans in the US.

Despite the foreboding headline, there’s good news to be found in the latest diversity counts among the biggest New York publishers.

For years, conservatives (among others) have complained that the New York Times list is biased against them.

Recently, the FTC in the United States announced a rule banning non-competes nationwide, making noncompetes no longer enforceable.

Elle Griffin, who has long been a Substack advocate, surfaces many quotable nuggets and stats from the DOJ vs PRH trial from 2022.

Publishers aren’t interested in publishing election-related content this year, which echoes changes in the larger media ecosystem.

A member of the Hugo administration team released emails and files that explain why certain authors were deemed ineligible for the Award.

Now that voting and nomination data has been shared, questions have been raised as to why some authors were not nominated for the awards.

The Texas book rating law has been deemed unconstitutional in an unanimous verdict by a three-judge panel in federal appeals court.