Political news for readers: March 10, 2025

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

• Seventeen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah (Book Riot).

• Kelly Jensen opens her weekly roundup of book bans and challenges with guidance on how to assess whether your news source is credible (Book Riot). 

• The International Writing Program, whose goal is to foster an international community of writers and translators, will be cutting back its offerings with the recent loss of federal funding (Literary Hub).

• Eighteen theater and performing arts organizations have joined a “cultural and academic boycott” of Israel (Literary Hub).