U.S. faces ‘expanded and escalated’ book censorship, PEN America reports

Timed to coincide with the upcoming Banned Books Week and Let Freedom Read Day, October 5–11, PEN America has released its annual report on censorship in public schools. The data further supports the concern, expressed across the book industry and in PW’s Freedom to Read issue, that censorship is widening in K–12 classrooms and libraries.