Beacon Press

12/19/2025

❄️Happiest of holidays to you all!❄️ We’ll be closed from December 22, 2025 through January 2, 2026. If you’re buying books during this time, remember that USPS media mail takes 7-10 business days. Also, the Penguin Random House warehouse will be closed from December 23 to December 25 and then on December 31. So, plan accordingly while placing your orders.

And don’t forget to support your local independent bookstore this holiday season!

12/19/2025

Starting our Friday right with the news that Dr. Shelley Sella’s BEYOND LIMITS has been longlisted for PEN America’s 2026 E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award!

12/19/2025

Since retiring from professional hockey, Harrison Browne has taken on film and television roles, like Connors on the hit sports-romance series HEATED RIVALRY!

Though the show is fictional, it provides a wink to real-life events.

12/18/2025

Save the date, LA! Steven Underwood will be at Reparations Club with Tré Melvin to chat about his upcoming book, FOREVER FOR THE CULTURE, on January 27. Now’s the time to get the early bird discount on tickets!

Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'Forever For The Culture' by author Steven Underwood in conversation with Tré Melvin

12/18/2025

Dr. Terence Keel’s students are heeding the call of securing autopsy reports and death records through public records requests.

Professor Terence Keel teaches students to examine autopsy reports and death records — and to think critically about how in-custody deaths affect families and society.

12/18/2025

What Sara Moslener traces historically in purity culture’s racial project becomes newly visible in the current conservative fascination with figures like Erika Kirk and Usha Vance.

Recent headlines about the denim ad wars—Levi’s tapping Beyoncé, American Eagle turning to Sydney Sweeney, Gap retreating after backlash—have offered a telling glimpse of how American brands still traffic in gendered norms that signal national belonging. The controversy over Sweeney’s earli...

12/17/2025

Toronto Sun is a real one for giving a shout-out to Steven Sandor’s LEVELING THE ICE in their hockey read roundup this year!

There are many titles to choose from this year, including some unsavoury topics, but you never go wrong with the gift of reading. More.

12/17/2025

There’s a degree of chance that was needed in order to get abortion medications out in the world. It’s amazing that it even happened.

“Just Pills” author Rebecca Kelliher discusses the U.S.' abortion fight and what to learn from Latin America’s reproductive justice battle.

12/17/2025

When your author’s book gets the red-carpet treatment on The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2025 roundup, you happy dance till you drop! Huge CONGRATS to Jonathan Tarleton’s HOMES FOR LIVING!

12/16/2025

Save the date!

P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts is hosting Nora Neus’s talk with Timothy J. Heaphy about her upcoming book, 24 HOURS AT THE CAPITOL, on the anniversary of the attack on the US Capitol. Get your tickets now!

“An especially important document.” —Booklist, Starred Review

12/16/2025

If you’ve been following the steamy hockey romance series HEATED RIVALRY, you’ll have caught former professional hockey player Harrison Browne in the role of Connors!

Introduced in Heated Rivalry episode 4, Harrison Browne opens up with ​Out​ about his history-making hockey career and playing Connors on the show.

12/16/2025

What does repentance even look like in order to be effective toward repair when, in many situations, one can be both wrongdoer and wronged?

“Sometimes we are hurt. Sometimes we hurt others, whether intentionally or not. The path of repentance is one that can help us not only to repair what we have broken, to the fullest extent po…