Beacon Press

10/07/2025

Post-Israel Palestine, 2048. Part of liberation is picturing the democratic decolonized future we want and how to get there.

A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…

10/07/2025

Greenlight Bookstore is hosting Atash Yaghmaian’s book launch of her debut memoir, MY NAME MEANS FIRE, next Tuesday at 7:30PM! She’ll be in conversation with Molly Roden Winter. Come through, NYC!

Brooklyn independent bookstore

10/07/2025

Happy Publication Day, Dina Gilio-Whitaker! ✨

WHO GETS TO BE INDIAN, her investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment, is an “incendiary j’accuse” that “isn’t afraid to name names” (Publishers Weekly, ⭐Starred Review).

10/06/2025

Meaning is a crucial foundation in parenting and education. Like Pam Roy Blog says, when we don’t have it, we know it.

📖 YouTube DescriptionWhat does it really mean to raise children for the future—not just for achievement, but for meaning?In this episode of The Manage Her, ...

10/06/2025

It's Banned Books Week! It's time for the Massachusetts legislature to pass a Freedom to Read bill that protects librarians and educators from harassment, and protects authors, creators, booksellers and publishers from economic harm. We support An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328).

10/06/2025

Fannie Lou Hamer captured the attention of millions of Americans and helped push President Lyndon B. Johnson into action. She would have turned 108 today.

Fannie Lou Hamer didn't need a good education to know that access to the ballot would mean more power.

10/03/2025

Coming soon this December!

Publishers Weekly calls AFTER PURITY, Sara Moslener’s intersectional analysis of evangelical purity culture’s influence on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the US, “a sobering wake-up call.”

Does a certain strain of conservative Christianity also bolster racist ideologies within the U.S.? Moslener (Virgin Nation), hos...

10/03/2025

We’re turning up on 🌦COVER REVEAL Friday🌦 for Lorraine Boissoneault!

Written through the lens of her chronic illness diagnosis, the braided essays of BODY WEATHER traverse science, history, and memoir to explore the interconnected relationships between the human body and Earth’s meteorology.

Watch this space in April 2026!

Cover art: Kyrianna.art

Cover design: Louis Roe

10/03/2025

After Daisy Hernández’s memoir, A CUP OF WATER UNDER MY BED, was published, readers from various walks of life showed up in bookstores and libraries and over social media to tell her that she had written their childhoods.

In the years since this memoir was first published, readers have asked me a number of questions: What does your family think of the book? How did you start writing a memoir in essays? Is the book a…

10/02/2025

Huge congrats to Jim Morris! His book, THE CANCER FACTORY, won National Association of Science Writers - NASW’s 2025 Science in Society Journalism Award in the Books category!

The National Association of Science Writers and its Awards Committee are pleased to announce the winners of the **2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards.** This year, NASW is awarding prizes in six categories: Books, Science Reporting, Science Features, Longform Narratives, Series, and Comme...

10/02/2025

Yes, hockey has a racism problem. Featuring interviews with NHL players of color, Steven Sandor’s LEVELING THE ICE “is a clear-eyed and important call for an institutional reckoning.”

The prevalence and impact of racism in North American hockey are explored by sports journalist Sandor (Called Up) in this notewo...

10/02/2025

This one hurts. May the greatest advocate for our closest genetic relatives rest in peace.

She was considered the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees and was renowned for her global conservation efforts