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Lit in Colour has released its five-year progress report, demonstrating slow progress when it comes to teaching new texts in ...

Without significant intervention, the Lit in Colour initiative warns it will be 2115 before 38 per cent of pupils – mirroring ...

Author says pace of change in GCSE English literature texts is too slow and tide is turning against inclusion ...

Why GCSE students studying books from authors of colour is ‘even more essential’ in 2026 - A more diverse reading list reflects our multi-racial society, a leading author has said ...

The reasons are no doubt complex and numerous. I want to focus on one: the books our children study at school. As a teenager ...

“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. What makes a book ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...