To Be Young, Latina, and Bisexual
Daisy Hernández’s memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed is organized into three parts: family life, sexuality, and class mobility.
Read moreDaisy Hernández’s memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed is organized into three parts: family life, sexuality, and class mobility.
Read moreFlights, a “non-traditional” narrative by acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, has won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, awarded annually to a fiction work judged to be the year’s outstanding work of translated fiction. Translator Jennifer Croft will share the 50,000 pound prize with Tokarczuk.
Read moreIn 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the
Read moreThe following letter was contributed by Christian Coleman, Digital Marketing Associate at Beacon Press. We live in a time where a president makes barefaced remarks in speeches that African Americans and Latinx people are prone to violence and corruption. His statements, obviously, pay no respect to the centuries-long history of African Americans and Latinx people organizing together
Read moreIn a recent TED Talk, author and professor of cognitive science Steven Pinker talked politics, pollution, and progress—the subject of his latest book, Enlightenment Now.
Read moreColumbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the winners of the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, including the Mark Lynton History Prize for Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, published by Penguin Press.
Read moreThis article was contributed by Alison Baverstock, Associate Professor of Publishing, Department of Journalism, Publishing and Media, Kingston University, UK. Kingston University won the Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year from Times Higher Education in 2017. Did we steal or borrow the idea of common reading? A publisher and long-term believer in the power
Read moreIsrael’s Education Ministry announced that celebrated author, David Grossman, has been awarded the Israel Prize—the country’s highest literary accolade—for this year. The prize committee, led by Prof. Avner Holtzman, noted that “since the early ’80s, Grossman has taken center stage in the Israeli culture scene. He is one of the most profound, moving and influential
Read moreEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City I began this project because I wanted to write a different kind of book about poverty in America. Instead of focusing exclusively on poor people or poor places, I began searching for a process that involved poor and well-off people alike. Eviction—the forced removal of families from
Read moreThe Penguin Classics edition of Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky has been shortlisted for the 2018 Read Russia Prize.
Read moreA more recent version of this story can be found here. Welcome to the new Penguin Random House Higher Education website! We are excited to feature a curated list of the most frequently adopted titles in higher education across our creatively independent adult publishing imprints, making content discoverability easier than ever. This site is designed
Read moreIn Our Grandchildren Redesigned I focus on three main areas—pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetics—through which the most far-reaching modifications of humans are likely to occur over the coming decades.
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