Books

The federal ruling requires a way for parents to opt out on religious grounds. Oregon’s new law includes a similar provision but in a different context.

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

Kelly Ramsey’s new memoir, "Wildfire Days," follows her rookie seasons as a wildland firefighter on an elite hotshot crew in the Pacific Northwest. Her story is one of physical endurance, belonging, and personal reckoning, all set against the backdrop of some of the West’s biggest wildfires.

The book explores the issues that have been brewing for decades in Bend.

Senate Bill 1098 would prohibit schools and libraries from removing books on the basis of being by, or about, members of a protected class.

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

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.