Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. What classic books would you place together on a shelf to represent the course of your life? This is the question that sparks our new hardcover series, Penguin Vitae, or, loosely translated, “Penguin of one’s life.” A diverse world of storytellers from the past speaks

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), we invite you to participate in a CFR Educators Webinar via Zoom on Tuesday, May 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (ET). CFR President Richard N. Haass will lead the discussion on The World: A Brief Introduction, his new book designed to provide readers with

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

Bren Smith, author of Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change and Executive Director of Greenwave gives an inside view of the process of ocean farming and its potential to save the planet in two informative videos. In “This Incredible underwater farm could be the future of food” produced

During these increasingly uncertain times, people are turning more to the arts to try and alleviate stress and cope with the world around them. While music generally has the ability to reduce anxiety and fight depression, certain genres such as jazz have also acted historically to promote peace, dialogue among cultures, and respect for human rights

Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. This month, we’re channeling the Stoics and practicing mindfulness in our daily lives, particularly through the books we read. We’ve gathered up some of our favorite books to keep us company during times of uncertainty, to provide a much-needed dose of calm and tranquility,

In 1942, 22 year-old Franci Rabinek arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto 40 miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey through four different camps. Her memoir, Franci’s War, offers her intense, candid account of those dark years before her liberation in 1945. Before that,

For faculty and school administrators dealing with closed campuses, in-person classes going online, and other challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve assembled a list of professional resource titles that will aid in adjusting to new circumstances and finding the right mindset to deal with radical change. See the full list here    

Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world—one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world’s most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick’s Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this

Contributed by Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing I recently asked a group of college professors on social media if they’d noticed a rise in the number of students who are burning out in school. I received a resounding chorus of replies that can be summed up in one word: YES. One prof at Southern

Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry

Contributed by Alex Beam, author of Broken Glass Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece is an unusual book because it is about architecture, and it is also the story of two strong-willed, creative people. My ambition was to write a biography of a beautiful building, told