Topic: Books

The Birds won by playing as a team. You can, too. Join something!

Read an excerpt from the entrepreneur / civic activist’s book about building a business with social impact. Then, join her and Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt on February 3

A new team with a new vision has taken on the prestigious event series, with authors from Chris Hayes to Anthony Fauci to poets, novelists, commentators and other writers of our moment. The Citizen is proud to be a media partner this spring

In a rousing conversation at the 2024 Ideas We Should Steal Festival, MLK biographers Jonathan Eig and Michael Eric Dyson share what’s still true about the America that the “radical” and “woke” King fought for

The South Philly-based author of the book that’s the basis for the biopic A Complete Unknown on what the movie missed, how the Dylan and Swift cults compare, and who owns pop culture antihero status today.

Several housing-focused books are coming out this winter and spring. Here, 12 worth your time in 2025

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, to discuss her coming-of-age-novel and the targeting of LGBTQ+ stories

The Citizen’s annual guide to gifts for the people — and the city — you love. (Suck it, Amazon. We’re shopping local!)

Many of the brilliant thinkers who will be at our 7th annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival on November 15 have not-to-miss books. Check them out — then, get your tickets to hear them live

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Emily M. Danforth, author of the award-winning coming-of-age novel about LGBTQ+ teens having a place in literary canon