Policy of secrecy leaves authors with ‘no inkling’ works are being set for NSW’s year 12 exams
Delia Falconer and Nikki Gemmell latest writers to find out their works were selected for the HSC – after the exams
Pennsylvania school district accused of banning Girls Who Code book series
Pen America says Central York school district’s 2021 ban list included coding titles, but officials say material no longer banned
How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back
As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves
The Guardian view on children’s reading: books of one’s own
Editorial: The benefits of reading at home are many and lifelong. Falling levels of enjoyment are a cause for worry
‘Rapid acceleration’ in US school book censorship leads to 2,500 bans in a year
School districts in 32 states banned 1,648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found
Exposed by Caroline Vout review – the real Greek and Roman body
Forget the chilly perfection of marble sculpture – a Cambridge classicist presents ancient bodies in all their fleshy fallibility
Salted owl and roasted puppy: Cambridge University to digitise medieval cures
Curious Cures is a two-year project to conserve more than 180 manuscripts, revealing the ‘precarity of medieval life’ and strangeness of pre-scientific medicine
Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs
Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales
When I became a doctor, I thought I could cope with the pain and death I would see. I was wrong
I couldn’t deal with the emotional load, so I became a writer, and poured it on to the page, says Joanna Cannon
‘You can’t say that!’: how to argue, better
A good debate isn’t about one person declaring victory, it’s about both people making a discovery, says psychologist Adam Grant
Andy Ward obituary
Other lives: Author of books on sports and higher education, including a narrative account of the Hillsborough disaster
Peter Mackridge obituary
Pioneer of Modern Greek studies in British universities fascinated by questions of language and identity
Children’s authors and Duchess of Cornwall unveil school library in Wales
Millbrook primary in Newport among first to be revamped as part of campaign
Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age
Proposed cuts to English lit courses are symptomatic of the Conservatives’ ignorance of culture and disregard for ordinary people’s access to it
Sir Laurence Martin obituary
Historian and security strategist who was aware of the elusiveness of a relationship of trust with a nuclear power such as the Soviet Union