Books

Shira Perlmutter's termination came shortly after the Copyright Office published a long-anticipated report on artificial intelligence.

There's another artificial intelligence blunder impacting news organizations. The content distributor King Features said it was firing a writer who produced a recommended summer reading list that contains non-existent books.

Oregon journalist Leah Sottile explores spirituality and New Age movements in her latest book.

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

The Imagination Library program, created by Dolly Parton, gifts books to children from birth to the month of their 5th birthday. Currently, 65,000 Oregon children are enrolled in the Imagination Library. The Lower Umpqua Library is the 57th community partner enrolled in the Imagination Library in Oregon.

During the last year of the first Trump presidency, M. Gessen wrote a book about what lessons Americans could learn from countries like Russia and Hungary. The book, called “Surviving Autocracy,” draws on Gessen’s own experiences growing up in Russia and the scholarship of European philosophers who have written about modern day authoritarianism. We talk to Gessen in front of a student audience at Grant High School.

A federal judge Tuesday wrote that President Trump's executive order dismantling the IMLS "disregards the fundamental constitutional role of each of the branches of our federal government."

Author Jaysea Lynn share details about her new novel about a Pacific Northwest woman who finds family and romance in the afterlife.

Several of the state's authors and writers won 2025 Oregon Book Awards Monday from Portland-based nonprofit Literary Arts.

At issue is whether school systems are required to allow parents to opt their kids out of classes because of religious objections to classroom materials.