Political news for readers: September 16, 2025

Catch up quick with the politics-adjacent bookish articles of the past few days.

• John Lithgow will star as Roald Dahl in next spring's Broadway production of Giant, an award-winning play that explores the children's author's anti-Semitism (The New York Times). 

• See some of the memos contained within the FBI's fourteen-year observation of author James Baldwin; the file ultimately added up to over 1,880 pages (Lapham's Quarterly).

• Penguin Random House's Banned Wagon Tour will return during this year's Banned Books Week; events include deliveries of banned books, for free, at locations in Washington, DC, and Philadelphia (Book Riot).