Books

Through colorful imagery and detailed documentation, co-authors Calvin Riley and NiNi Harris tell the stories of enslaved people, nightclub owners, soldiers and everyday Black St. Louisans.

Jennifer Alexander of St. Louis County Library and Ted Reidy of St. Louis Public Library share their favorite books released in 2023.

The number of bans and restrictions in the U.S. rose 33% in the last school year, according the report from free speech group PEN America. Florida had more bans than any other state, followed by Texas and Missouri.

Michael Harriot unpacks American history to reveal the “Black AF” history inside.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias told the U.S. Senate panel that public libraries have become “thunderdomes of controversy and strife” across the country.

The policy comes more than a year after the Missouri Department of Corrections banned people from receiving paper mail in prison.

In her new book, Aisha Harris shares her experiences as a Black, suburban, '90s-kid-turned-30-something, city-dwelling journalist while digging into the shifting ways we interact with pop culture — and how it touches us in ways we may not even realize.

Dive into a good beach read this summer with recommendations from two local librarians, Tammy Albohaire and Maryann Brickey.

Citing a “vitriolic strain of white nationalism,” Gov. JB Pritzker signed the measure withholding state grant money from libraries if they ban books.

Marian O'Shea Wernicke’s new novel is out this week.