Imagine a whole city of books. Seems like an ancient dream, but not yesterday in Porto at the Babell book Festival. We saw Margaret Atwood through an iron fence saying censorship was “a very old story in world history.” Those fighting book bans — librarians, teachers — are doing essential work now.

Some good news to share: the full-cast YA audiobook of Private School Punk has been named one of the 2026 IPPY Outstanding Books of the Year — a judges' selection across all genres, and the only full-cast audiobook among them. 28 actors, 10 countries, original score made punk 1976 alive again. 🎧