Beacon Press

10/30/2025

Across California, deepfake scams are multiplying. CA leads the nation in reported cybercrime losses. The best defense? It’s us!

“Everyday Americans must become human firewalls, defending the integrity of our personal data, finances and shared trust in one another.”

10/29/2025

What unites the 100+ women Stephanie Elizondo Griest interviewed for ART ABOVE EVERYTHING is their profound devotion to their creative practices and doing whatever it takes to give their creative work life.

In this conversation, Melanie Wakelin interviews Stephanie Elizondo Griest, an accomplished author and professor, about her new book 'Art Above Everything' and...

10/29/2025

NEXT SATURDAY!

Atash Yaghmaian will be at Papercuts J.P. to talk about her debut memoir, MY NAME MEANS FIRE, at 6PM. Come through, Jamaica Plain, and RSVP!

Award-winning, woman-owned indie bookstore in the beautiful Boston neighborhood Jamaica Plain. Est 2014

10/29/2025

As we move into an era that is increasingly overt with its injustice and fascism, we need to have conversations about radical unlearning in our everyday lives even more urgently.

Lewis Raven Wallace’s new book digs into the science of personal transformation

10/28/2025

Ernesto learned many cuisines when he left Mexico to become a chef in NYC. His grandmother’s cooking and the simple way she prepared never left him.

When I came to New York, my oldest brother asked me, “What do you want to do? There are no fields here and what else do you know?” I said, “I want to be a cook.”

10/28/2025

📢PAID INTERNSHIP ALERT!📢

We’re looking for an intern to join our marketing team next spring for our People of Color in Publishing internship program! Details here on how to apply by November 28! ⬇️

https://www.beacon.org/Assets/ClientPages/Openings.aspx

10/28/2025

Happy Publication Day, Lewis Raven Wallace!🧠

RADICAL UNLEARNING is an accessible exploration into how we can use trauma psychology to unravel and transform our harmful beliefs. “Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview” (Adrienne Maree Brown).

10/27/2025

The No Kings rallies are an entry point for many to social justice, but what’s the end game? What are their demands and organizing vision?

You cannot defeat a king with a parade. The failure of "No Kings" is the refusal to build real power beyond a single day of protest.

10/27/2025

According to Ilan Pappé, Israel is being swallowed by a new kind of state he calls the state of Judea—a far more fanatic, racist, and theocratic state. This dynamic will unfold sooner than later.

Israel on the Brink

10/27/2025

Melody Glenn hopes her book MOTHER OF METHADONE leads to policy change that increases access to methadone and harm reduction and prioritizes treatment over incarceration.

10/24/2025

Publishers Weekly praises C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost’s A BLACK Q***R HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES as “an excellent window into a long-repressed past.” And it comes out in January!

This illuminating account from gender studies scholars Snorton (Black on Both Sides) and Bost (Evidence of Being) showcases cult...

10/24/2025

It’s a riotous 📢COVER REVEAL Friday📢 for P***y Riot member Maria Alyokhina!

POLITICAL GIRL is her urgent, intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin’s Russia, taking us through her activist experiences between 2014 to 2022.

Watch this space this December! 👀