Conflict

Explore our recommended books for Refugee Week as the National Literacy Trusts showcases events and resources to promote understanding.

Baillie Gifford ends literary festival sponsorships amid calls to divest from fossil fuels and Israeli investments.

Fossil Free Books welcomed Edinburgh International Book Festival decision to drop Baillie Gifford over controversial investments.

Explore insights on trauma, healing, and solidarity from ‘A Flat Place’ author Noreen Masud at the Heritage Reads Book Club event.

Sir Salman Rushdie faces criticism for comments likening a potential Palestinian state to a “Taliban-like state.”

Fossil Free Books urges Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuels and companies linked to Israeli apartheid on Nakba anniversary.

Explore the controversy surrounding an essay by Zadie Smith on Palestine and campus protests in the New Yorker.

Historic vote in EGM by Society of Authors (SoA) rejects Gaza ceasefire while calling for fossil fuel divestment, amid criticism.

PEN America has announced the cancellation of its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony originally set for April 29 at Town Hall, New York City, although some awards will still be conferred. …

PEN America to reevaluate its mission amid authors withdrawing from awards and demands for leadership change over Gaza stance.