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92 Articles Categorized Under Humanities & Social Sciences

Humanities & Social Sciences
February 5 2019

Our 8 NBCC Award Finalists

Congratulations to our 8 National Book Critics Circle finalists for their 2018 Awards. Founded in 1974, the NBCC now comprises more than 1,000 working critics and book-review editors throughout the country, who annually vote and bestow its awards in six categories, honoring the best books published in the past year in the United States.  

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Our 8 NBCC Award Finalists

Humanities & Social Sciences
February 5 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
January 17 2019

Mary Oliver: 1935 – 2019

Mary Oliver published her first book, No Voyage, in London in 1963, at the age of twenty-eight. The author of more than 20 collections, she was cherished by readers, and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, and the 1992 National Book Award for New and Selected Poems,

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Mary Oliver: 1935 – 2019

Humanities & Social Sciences
January 17 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
January 9 2019

New History and Literature Catalogs for 2019

Penguin Random House is proud to present these new titles and perennial favorites selected for college-level History and Literature courses!      

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New History and Literature Catalogs for 2019

Humanities & Social Sciences
January 9 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
December 11 2018

Margaret Atwood’s Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale to Publish in 2019

As announced last week, Margaret Atwood will write a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, due to publish in hardcover and as an ebook on September 10, 2019.   Her new book The Testaments* is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene in The Handmaid’s Tale and is narrated by three female characters. Atwood made a

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Margaret Atwood’s Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale to Publish in 2019

Humanities & Social Sciences
December 11 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 29 2018

The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2018

The editors of The Times Book Review have chosen the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year and Penguin Random House is thrilled to publish 7 of those selected   “Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers is a page turner . . . among the first novels to chronicle the AIDS epidemic from its initial outbreak to the

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The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2018

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 29 2018
THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

We celebrate THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez, published by Riverhead, chosen by the panel of five judges from 368 submissions, as the recipient of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, announced Wednesday evening, November 14, at the annual National Book Foundation dinner in downtown Manhattan. Sigrid Nunez’s previous literary honors include a Whiting Writer’s Award, and

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THE FRIEND wins The 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

THE FRIEND wins the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 26 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 12 2018

What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?

The Chronicle of Higher Education asked scholars that very question. Each year, more than 15,000 academic books are published in North America. A scant few will reach beyond their core audience of disciplinary specialists. Fewer still will enter the public consciousness. We invited scholars from across the academy to tell us what they saw as

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What’s the most influential book of the past 20 years?

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 12 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 8 2018

Jessica Brody on Her Innovative New Guide for Creative Writers

Contributed by Jessica Brody, author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel (Ten Speed Press, 2018).   In 2005, I was a walking cliché: a struggling writer attempting to sell my first novel, living in a studio apartment wallpapered with rejection letters. I had recently been laid off from my corporate job as a financial

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Jessica Brody on Her Innovative New Guide for Creative Writers

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 8 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 6 2018

A Book that Celebrates Writers for National Novel Writing Month

From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world’s greatest writers   Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing

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A Book that Celebrates Writers for National Novel Writing Month

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 6 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 29 2018

Penguin Random House Fiction Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards

Presenting the five finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards published by Penguin Random House     Fiction: FLORIDA by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio) THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai (Viking Books, Penguin Audio) THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio) Poetry: AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books) Translated Literature: FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk,

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Penguin Random House Fiction Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 29 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 23 2018

The 3 Penguin Random House Books Barack Obama Recommends You Read Before Election Day

Former President Barack Obama posted a message on his Facebook page on Friday, October 12, that began, “I wanted to share a handful of books and articles that speak to the current political moment and something I’ve been talking about around the country this fall.” Among the books that Obama has read and recommends that everyone consider reading before

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The 3 Penguin Random House Books Barack Obama Recommends You Read Before Election Day

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 23 2018
Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
October 18 2018

THE CLASS Explores a New Approach to STEM Education

Contributed by Heather Won Tesoriero, author of  The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America (Ballantine Books, 2018). In the fall of 2015, I was a producer for the CBS Evening News. We were planning to do an endpiece for the show about Olivia Hallisey, a Greenwich, CT, teenager who

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THE CLASS Explores a New Approach to STEM Education

Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
October 18 2018
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