Beacon Press

09/10/2026

It’s a verse-filled ✍🏻Cover Reveal Friday✍🏻 with Yi Wei!

Winner of The National Poetry Series, DIARY is her virtuosic debut collection that explores the tension between self and community through a contemporary Asian American lens.

Watch this space in March 2027!

Cover design: Louis Roe

08/10/2026

“Everyone that dies here, dies by sheer bad luck. They just happen to be where the missile strikes at that particular moment.”—Atef Abu Saif 🍉

By Atef Abu Saif

08/10/2026

The motivation behind CAST OUT is to ask a different question of our unforgiving society. What happened? What brought this human being to this place?

Delving In with Stuart Kelter · Episode

07/10/2026

For Kate Washington, the biggest task of her midlife has been to reintegrate all the selves that she has been. YES! May it be so for all of us!

This episode of The Becoming Podcast is for anyone who has felt like they’ve lost themselves in caregiving, or in the demands of midlife. This month, author Kate Washington joins me on the pod to talk about her commitment to do 50 wild swims before her 50th birthday, the deeper meaning that commit...

07/10/2026

The first question Jesus asks his followers is not, “How strong is your nation?” but rather, “How has your nation treated the most vulnerable among you?” Liz Theoharis writes for The Intercept

What kind of Christianity is being proclaimed when the language of Jesus is attached to military power?

06/10/2026

NO NEW YORK is “required reading” for anyone interested in learning about a period that housed some of the most culturally relevant female musicians.

A chat with the author/musician about her recent memoir, “No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene” and the fierce feminism of the late 70s to early 80s East Village.

06/10/2026

Happy Publication Day to Stacey Patton!

STRUNG UP, an unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, is “a clear-eyed, tour de force deconstruction of America’s damaged psyche” (Publishers Weekly, ⭐️Starred Review).

05/10/2026

It is still true that protest can change the world. Author Gloria Browne-Marshall tracks the arc of such struggles throughout US history in A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US; to show us how it’s done.

How struggle for change has defined the United States from the start.

05/10/2026

Adele Bertei's NO NEW YORK blends memoir and cultural history while offering readers a perspective of the No Wave Movement that centers the female artists, writers, and musicians who were at the center of it.

Adele Bertei is revisiting one of New York City’s most influential underground art movements with the release of her new memoir, ‘No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene.’ Published by Beacon Press, the 336-page book combines memoir and cultural history to tell the ...

02/10/2026

Making it count on 🌍Cover Reveal Friday🌍 with Tanya Katerí Hernández!

THE GLOBAL ERASURE OF BLACKNESS is a historical examination of the Black census undercount as a transnational civil rights issue.

Watch this space in April 2027!

Cover design: Carol Chu