The self-taught son of a boot-and-shoe-machine operator is causing a run on critical superlatives in highbrow London’s literary marketplace. “One of the most remarkable first books I have read,” wrote ...

Look no further than apples for a study of intellectual property. When the University of Minnesota several years ago was preparing to introduce a new variety of apple into the market, it decided ...

Intellectual freedom is now—and will likely always be—a necessary topic for librarians to examine. If every book has its reader, most books will also have a challenger. In addition to considering ...

Dr. Danielle Sachdeva and Dr. Wes Whitaker received an invitation from publisher IGI Global to work on "Supporting Students' Intellectual Freedom in Schools: The Right to Read," a new book about ...

In 2023, the American Library Association documented 1,247 demands to censor library books and resources. From 2010-2019, popular titles such as "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Hunger Games" and even ...

Scholastic arguments, sacred texts and disciplined reasoning meet in books that reveal how medieval thinkers shaped belief, ...

Writing about public intellectuals a couple of weeks ago reminded me of how annoyed I was by a comment Tony Judt makes in Thinking the Twentieth Century. Judt contemplates the sales figures of even ...