Book bans and challenges: March 25, 2024

Here's the latest news on book bans and challenges — and other challenges to literature — around the US.

• Kelly Jensen takes a deep dive into the app OnShelf, formerly known as BookmarkED, and the havoc it's wreaking in Texas schools (Book Riot). 

• The New York City Department of Education is investigating how hundreds of new books, many of which were about marginalized groups of people, ended up in the trash, and the books' publishers are joining in the outcry (Publishing Perspectives).