Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered this week at Book Riot.
The state of Utah is banning the book blitz in 2026. On Friday, June 5, the state added its 35th book to the list of books that must be removed from every public school in the state: lucky By Alice Sebold. comes amid restrictions A lawsuit challenging these state-sanctioned restrictions Filed in February, and it comes after 15 other books were banned in 2026 alone.
This right to privacy is radical. There are some places in America where there is no expectation of privacy commitment This. It blew my mind in college when I heard that my college library—which was twice the size of the city’s public library—had been contacted by federal agents. Those agents wanted the records of a user who was related to a potential terrorism suspect. The right to privacy meant that the library would not turn over those records. In listening to this story multiple times, several anecdotes came up about how the library would put a card on the bulletin board that read “Were we visited today by federal agents?” With “yes” or “no” answers below.
And for all Access members, Here are all the interesting links we bookmarked that didn’t make it to Today in Books coverage.
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