Posted on August 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's the latest news on literary controversies and controversial literature.
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Danika Ellis reports on how fan-fiction site Wattpad has banned certain kinds of sexual content, prompting users to move to Archive of Our Own — a different fan-fiction site — but not without some complaints (Book Riot).
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Katie McLain Horner's latest list of links for library workers includes several updates on budget cuts across the US and court cases over laws allowing for broad book bans (Book Riot).
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Senator Rand Paul, two politicians who have used their offices to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci, have both written books criticizing the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — and are seeing sales of those books rise as they hold said hearings (The New York Times).
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