Sept. 29 marks the beginning of the American Library Association's annual "Banned Books Week," a commemoration of all the books that have ever been removed from library shelves and classrooms.

Join the Norman Arts Council, Norman Public Library and other participating organizations as we trek through the Six Great Passages of The Grapes of Wrath as selected by Dr. Robert Con Davis-Undiano, ...

During this pandemic and era of political unrest, I have found it easy to feel as though our world and our nation is enduring unprecedented times. While surely most of us have never lived through the ...

As a biographer, Iris Jamahl Dunkle has made it a calling to unearth the “lost voices” of history and literature — talented, creative and accomplished women whose contributions have been underplayed, ...

The late John Steinbeck’s literature is not just a critical part of the American literary canon, but intrinsic to American identity itself. With every deeply relatable, ordinary protagonist, Steinbeck ...

AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones ...

Forty-two years ago this week, Diane Kaste was sitting in the Kanawha School Board meeting. She remembers it clearly. “All kinds of TV cameras were there. And it was in the cafeteria,” Kaste, who now ...

The Steinbeck classic was banned and burned in a number of cities, including Kern County, Calif. — the endpoint of the Joad family's fictional... 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning ...