We weren’t prepared for the emotional roller coaster Bad Bunny Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, took us on.

Scholars Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau, also creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus,” join us to break down Bad Bunny’s music and activism.

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Petra Rivera-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance.

In “P FKN R,” Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau explore the music and activism of Bad Bunny.

An exclusive excerpt from the book 'P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance' traces the star's music and activism.

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In a new book, John J. Lennon presses two cases: that his is a work of legitimate journalism, and that this makes him something more than a killer.

John J. Lennon is currently serving his 24th year of a 28-to-life sentence for murder, drug sales, and gun possession at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY. He is also an accomplished jou...

A journalist writing from prison upends the typical 'true crime' narrative.

John J. Lennon’s book, written in his twenty-fourth year in prison, provides a bracing reckoning with guilt, remorse, and the possibility of change.

In November 2016, when I arrived at Sing Sing, the prison was much less intense than Attica. Batons stayed on hips. COs, who were mostly Black and Hispanic, and about half of whom were women, talke…

In 2019, I was editing articles about criminal justice for the website of The Atlantic when a colleague, David A. Graham, sent me an email that started: “I’m passing along this pitch fr…

Since George T. Andreou ’87 became the press’s director in 2017, staff alleged — in interviews, union surveys, and letters to Harvard officials — that he belittled employees and mismanaged the publish...

One evening, I walked out of the cellblock through white hallways to do some research in the prison’s general library. I live in Sullivan Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison tuck…

The human-built world keeps getting in the way of the rising sea. But this current story of our coast does not have to end in disaster.

The private investment firm KKR has agreed to buy Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion. When the purchase closes, S&S will operate under current leaders Jonathan Karp and Dennis Eulau and KKR promised t...