In 2022, Open Books volunteers hand-picked and mailed over 10,000 books to Florida’s jail and prison inmates who requested them. After the request is made, the matchmaking begins.

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were ...

"Sometimes it's 'I want this book,' boom, boom, boom, and sometimes it's a five-page written letter telling us about their life history," said Johnny Ardis, general manager of Open Books.

Open your browser and you can read that all kinds of people are sending open letters — letters meant to be read by everyone. In the recent past, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred posted an open ...

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by ...

The open letters collected and edited by Carolina De Robertis in Radical Hope offer lessons for surviving racial oppression, following the striking example set by James Baldwin’s letter to his ...

Ariana Grande, Guillermo del Toro, Padma Lakshmi and More Sign Open Letter Denouncing Book Bans and Their “Chilling Effect” (Exclusive) "It’s only a matter of time before regressive ...

After an award ceremony for a Palestinian author at the Frankfurt Book Fair was canceled, more than 1,000 literary figures have signed an open letter denouncing the decision.

Private letters and leisurely discussions let savants explore ideas while religious strife and hatred were ripping their societies apart. Laura Auricchio reviews “The Republic of Letters” by ...

Former President of the United States Barack Obama published an open letter July 17 in support of America’s librarians in an era of increasingly frequent book challenges and sometimes politically ...