The United States’ current border issues with Mexico draw attention to the hardships of life there. CNN reports that nearly 35,000 individuals were arrested crossing the southern US border illegally in June. The separation of children from their families created public outcry and nationwide human rights protests. Read on for a selection of books about Mexico and border crossing.

Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

For the second year in a row, Common Reads has pulled together an extensive list of First-Year and Common Reading programs run by colleges and universities across the country.

This fall, Arizona State University will be using three Penguin Random House titles in its long-running Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program brings incarcerated “inside” and nonincarcerated “outside” students together to learn about issues of crime and justice over a full semester.

The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. “The English Patient

Ira Berlin, a historian whose research and acclaimed books helped reveal the complexities of American slavery and its aftermath, died early this month in Washington. He was 77.

Daisy Hernández’s memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed is organized into three parts: family life, sexuality, and class mobility.

Flights, 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.

In 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

The 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

In 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.

Columbia 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.