Beacon Press

06/12/2026

Coming soon this August! Publishers Weekly says G’Ra Asim’s 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1 is “simultaneously personal and relatable” and “deserves a wide readership.”

In this astute essay collection, Asim (Boyz in the Void), a musician and assistant professor of creative writing at Washington U...

06/12/2026

It’s a meditative 💭Cover Reveal Friday💭 with Kamau Bobb!

THE BULLWHIP’S ALGORITHM warns us of the colorblind promises of AI in education in light of US society’s history of race and technology.

Watch this space in October!

Cover art: Fahamu Pecou

Cover design: Louis Roe

06/12/2026

On Loving Day, remembering that anti-miscegenation laws that the Loving v. Virginia case struck down were the main vehicle for constructing white supremacy in this country.

From beginning to end, novel is a review of the nation’s tense, violent and unsavory struggle to come to terms with in*******al relationships over the course of 400 years.

06/11/2026

Financial censorship is when someone loses access to a financial service because it’s connected to a form of lawful speech they were engaged in. There’s a bigger flare of this censorship now during the current admin.

Bella ciao. Things aren't looking good out there in America right now, are they? Well, that's why this show exists. To help protect you from fascists and weirdos. So today we're joined by Rainey Reitman, author of the book Transaction Denied and president of the board of Freedom of the Press...

06/11/2026

Mark your calendars!

Crystal Simone Smith will be at Politics and Prose Bookstore on July 6 to talk about her work of erasure poetry, COMMON SENSE (1776), with fellow Beacon author Author Gloria Browne-Marshall. First come, first serve when you get there!

Crystal Simone Smith — Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An Erasure -with Gloria Browne-Marshall — at conn ave A revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense—calling for a new definition of citizenship that e...

06/11/2026

Here’s the win-win solution. More business owners should open their doors to well-behaved dogs. People with well-behaved pets, especially service dogs, should campaign for access.

There is a win-win solution.

06/10/2026

Physics breaks the world into pieces so we can make sense of it. For Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, physics helped them make sense of their own life.

Physics is considered a cold, hard science – but it will transform your life if you view it with a bit more subjectivity, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

06/10/2026

Counterfire is right! Reading THE BLACK SCHOONER “makes you want to understand more about this period in the history of early capitalism.”

The Black Schooner is an informative and vivid telling of the famous story of a successful revolt on a slave ship in 1839, and will inspire readers to discover more, finds Graham Kirkwood The way that slavery and its abolition were taught when I went to school in Scotland back in the 1970s was all a...

06/10/2026

Don’t let heteropessimism get you down in today’s dating scene. G’Ra Asim suggests a little more patience, a little more compassion, and a little more humility.

In 99 Problems Finding the 1 (Beacon, Aug.), the author unpacks the pessimism around modern dating and charts a path toward a more connected future.

06/09/2026

If you’re looking for a Pride Month read, ANTIGRAVITY Magazine says Adele Bertei’s NO NEW YORK “is a very valuable perspective on women in 1980s New York punk finding their way and building a community for themselves.”

REVIEWS Angela Calonder | Barclay Zislin | Branna Elenz | Dalton Spangler | Dan Fox | Danny Cherry Jr. | Elisa Gomez | Holly Devon | Marisa Clogher | Mary Beth Campbell | Ryne Hancock | Sara Nicole Storm | Steven Melendez | Terra Durio | William Archambeault April 2026 BUTTE THIS WORLD IS GREEN, AND...