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  • Not Your Fairy-Tale Rosa Parks: The Second Edition of Her Rebellious Life Biography Turns 10

    A Q&A with Jeanne Theoharis and Gayatri Patnaik | When I published the original edition, I did so without being able to see a cache of Rosa Parks’s papers that had been held for years by Guernsey’s auction following a dispute over her estate. In late 2014, Howard Buffett, horrified by a news story about…

  • 11 New Year’s Reads to Put You on the Runway of Transformation

    By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing ourselves for the greater good. What shall we work on? Expanding our minds about what Buddhism is…

  • Feed Your TBR List During Our Holiday Sale!

    By Christian Coleman | If last Christmas, you gave someone your heart, and the very next day, they gave it away, this year, to save yourself from tears, you’ll give it to your TBR list! ALL our books are 30% off through December 31 during our holiday sale!

  • 4 (and a Half) Ways into Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “Indigenous Peoples’ History”

    By Christian Coleman | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s OG text has had more than one life. Published in 2014, “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” is the third installment of Beacon’s ReVisioning History series, created by Beacon Press director Gayatri Patnaik. Now, a decade later, there is more than one way to read and radically…

  • Healing Up After the Election with Beacon Comfort Reads

    By Christian Coleman | It’s going to be another four years of accelerated survival mode. The results of the election greenlit the sequel of the orange demagogue franchise we didn’t want. And now we need to brace ourselves for it. However, the frustration, the anger, and the grief from the spoils of November 5 are…

  • When Democracy Is on the Line: A Pre- and Post-Election Reading List

    By Christian Coleman | Here we are again with the nail-biting tension from four years ago. The neck-and-neck polls between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump alerted our attention to other issues at play in addition to the debate and rally talking points. Lies about voter fraud that distract us from how…

  • In Praise of Pioneers of Change for Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month: A Reading List

    By Christian Coleman | A Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month unmarred by election-year drama would have been a miracle. No such luck in 2024. Not with anti-immigrant rhetoric regrowing its Hydra’s head when right-wing candidates take to the debate and rally stages. If that weren’t enough, Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month started off with news that Jeanine Cummins will…

  • Beacon Books on Red Alert During Banned Books Week 2024!

    By Christian Coleman | And the category is . . . Challenged! Challenged as in a hair’s breadth away from being banned. For Banned Books Week, United Against Book Bans released the latest roundup of challenged books, and ten Beacon Press titles are on it! Tens across the board for each one strutting their red-alert…

  • These Beacon Beach Reads Will Make You Water

    By Christian Coleman | Normally, we could keep our cool, but this season we’re wilding in a dangerous mood. Can you match our timing? Because we’re in a dangerous mood for some summer reading. These titles from our catalog will make you sweat, make you hotter, make you lose your breath, make you water. They…

  • Beacon Staff Summer Reads and Other Binges of 2024

    Image credit: Bequest Just what does one do when the sun blazes and the humidity churns the air into chunky Campbell soup? Tell that attention-seeking season called summer “Thank you, but no thank you” and camp out by the A/C with your reads and binges. That’s what we did. *winks* Here’s what our staff has…