Teachers assign summer reading, but what do they read on their vacations? Linda Nathan shares her favorites. Read more →

The Unitarian Universalist Association's Common Read program has selected Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Read more →

David Gessner has had enough of elevated language and warbling folkies singing about Mother Earth. It's time to kick out the jams. Read more →

A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles. Read more →

June 13 marks the 40th anniversary of the day the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, and the federal government has finally decided to declassify them. Read more →

Judge Nancy Gertner discusses her life as a defense lawyer, what it meant to her to defend women, and the different paths Gertner and Justice Sotomayor took to becoming judges. Read more →

Margaret Regan, author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, will once again appear at the Tucson Festival of Books. Her appearance at the 2010 festival was broadcast on BookTV; you can watch it on YouTube.... Read more →

Terry Galloway talks about her cochlear implant surgery and how it felt to hear her mother's voice for the first time in 51 years. Read more →

In an excerpt from her book, Terry Galloway discusses lip-reading, special education, and being Little-d deaf. Read more →

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is available in a new, altered version. The author of Inheriting the Trade writes about why he thinks this is a bad idea. Read more →

Read more about Margaret Regan's compelling book that addresses the human cost of U.S. immigration policy. Read more →

Out now: a new edition of Eboo Patel's acclaimed memoir with a new afterword by the author. Read more →

While one man and his small group of followers talk about burning copies of Islam's holy book, America's secular and religious communities speak up in solidarity. Read more →

A member of Beacon's staff shares some photos from her parent's visit with Barack Obama. Read more →

Two Beacon Press books are leading the voting for the Boston Globe's first citywide read program. Read more →

Beacon staff returns from a productive and photogenic BookExpo America! Read more →

Speaking to a convention of Sri Lankan Tamil doctors, Adele Barker discovers renewal through books. Read more →

Sit back and watch or listen to some recent media appearances by Beacon authors. Read more →

Today's post is from Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher of Beacon Press. Last week, Beacon announced a change in its distribution from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Random House Publisher Services which will be effective July 1, 2010. It's a big change... Read more →

An excerpt from Thousand Pieces of Gold, a biographical novel about the life of an extraordinary Chinese-American woman in the old west. Read more →