HARPER LEE

A new book shows the personal side of the late “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee.

The Majestic Theatre has announced its lineup of Broadway shows for the 2022-2023 season.

Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.

Greg Kinnear was just a month away from making his Broadway debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” when the pandemic shut theater down in March 2020.

Fans of the Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will get a treat when the show restarts this fall — Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger, two of the play’s original stars.

Many educators in the U.S. say they’ve heard a demand from students for fuller Black history lessons beyond what was already offered.

Despite the closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic, there were still calls from patrons and others to have certain books banned or restricted.

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. “There are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,” Caldwell-Stone says.