Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Happy summer from Penguin Classics! With warmer weather, outdoor activities, and long-awaited reunions on the horizon, we’re feeling hopeful for a brighter season. We wish you your ideal restorative break with books, whether you finally bring your book club outdoors or your

Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, THE CUBANS, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous

For World Environment Day, we are providing resources to help students gain an awareness of the varying threats to the environment. Through this understanding, we hope to give them the tools to take action to help protect the planet.   Finding the Mother Tree From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people

In June we celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month, which honors the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. First, President Bill Clinton declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month” on June 2, 2000. In 2009, President Barack Obama declared June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” LGBTQ+ Pride events attract millions

By Scott Ellsworth   What if one’s history wasn’t what it was supposed to be? On the block where I grew up, families rarely locked their doors, children played outside until well past dark on warm summer evenings, and history, in the form of the kinds of things that appeared on the nightly news, was