Congratulations to the 2025 Lukas Prize Winners and Finalist

Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the four winners and three finalists of the 2025 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, established in 1998, recognize excellence in nonfiction that exemplifies the literary grace and commitment to serious research and social concern that characterized the

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant,

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Congratulations to the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners!

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English. Here the titles published by Penguin Random House that are among the NBCC Award winners:   Fiction category: My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)   Autobiography category: Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translation by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel

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Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Every May we celebrate the rich history and culture of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Browse a curated selection of fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators that we think your students will love. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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Dear Miss Perkins author Rebecca Brenner Graham on Putting Social Forces Front and Center

By Rebecca Brenner Graham Back in 2014, when I first began studying the immigration policy of the first woman cabinet secretary, Frances Perkins, I assumed that she was able to save people left and right because she was a progressive with an unwavering belief in human rights at the helm of the Immigration Naturalization Service

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Scott Guild’s Plastic

Plastic is a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold.   1    A DOLL’S HOUSE The episode opens on a plastic woman driving home from work. The camera follows her from outside the car, filming her through the window,

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Penguin Random House 2024 National Book Award Winners

Here are the Penguin Random House books that have been chosen as winners for the National Book Award, one of the most celebrated prizes since 1950. Read more about the winners from the National Book Foundation here.   Winner, National Book Award for Fiction James by Percival Everett (Doubleday) Winner, National Book Award for Nonfiction Soldiers

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Revisionaries author Kristopher Jansma on What to do With Your Own “Lost” Works

By Kristopher Jansma We’ve all been there. We’ve worked for months, or even years, on a book… poured our hearts and souls into those chapters and characters, only to wind up having to walk away in the end. Maybe you queried agents and got no takers. Maybe the publishers didn’t bite. Or maybe you simply

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