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Inside the Headquarters of Noname Book Club

The Radical Hood Library wants to promote “liberatory and revolutionary ideas.”

10 Great Recently Banned Books to Check Out

The books touch on sexuality, racism, and other topics that affect our everyday lives.

The Creative Ways Students Are Standing Up to Book Bans

From protests to podcasts.

How Patriarchy Has Contributed to the Climate Crisis

“Ecofeminism” explains the connection.

Are We Already Living in a Dystopia?

We asked the authors of popular postapocalyptic novels to weigh in.

25 Books By Black Authors to Read in 2022

Get your bookmarks ready.

Elliot Page Is Writing a Memoir

“Pageboy” hits shelves next year.

Why Certain Books Get Banned

"The desire for softened accounts of history is hardly new."

“The Whispering Dark” Is a YA Urban Fantasy With a Deaf College Student in the Spotlight

Read an exclusive excerpt from Kelly Andrew's debut novel.

5 Nonfiction Books That Changed My Life This Year

These books helped me understand the world.

The 11 Best Books of 2021

A complete guide to the must-read books of 2021.

For Zeba Blay, Being #CarefreeBlackGirls Isn't All About Joy

Her new book explores finding her carefree side through pain and depression.

These Authors With Roots in Latin America Are Redefining Purpose & Identity

“I want young folks who are searching for answers to know that they are powerful because power is daring to create and believe in something that only you can see,” says Elisabet Velasquez.

The Long, Complex History of Book Censorship

Banned Books Week is about setting the record straight.

“If You Change Your Mind” Is a YA Rom-Com That Centers Queer Joy

Read an excerpt from the first chapter here.

Michaela Coel Unpacks New Book “Misfits” & Existing Despite the White Gaze

The talent also talks about cancel culture, unconscious bias, and remembers Khadija Saye.

Letter from the Editor: Our August 2021 Cover Star and the Joy of Brown Girl Representation

"[Maitreyi is] allowing us to see ourselves in a way that hasn’t really been depicted before."

6 Authors Join Forces to Write a Book of Love in 'Blackout'

Ahh, summer love. 

A New Black-Owned Bookshop Brings Literary Diversity to Brooklyn

Darlene Okpo just opened up one of the coolest bookstores.

It’s Quinta Brunson’s World, We’re Just Living In It

Quinta Brunson dishes on life before internet fame in She Memes Well.