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Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises, The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits by Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises is a meticulous ...

By Shalra Azeem, Spring 2025 Intern   Women’s History Month is a time to honor women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. That is what makes the month of March ...

Now more than ever, urban residents have the desire to live greener, more sustainable lives and are making efforts to achieve that future. However, in their new book, The Sustainability ...

By Shalra Azeem & Keshav Bansal Black History Month is a time to honor the past, celebrate resilience, and amplify voices that not only shaped history, but the present as ...

By Asha Ahn, Spring 2025 intern.   Black history is a testament to resilience and the relentless pursuit of justice. As we honor Black History Month, we’re highlighting an essential ...

By Keshav Bansal and Shalra Azeem     February marks the celebration of Black History Month, a time to reflect on the incredible contributions, struggles, and triumphs of Black Americans ...

In the powerful, myth-shattering book King of the North, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jeanne Theoharis argues that Martin Luther King Jr.'s time outside of the South was ...

In Bad Law, Elie Mystal, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate ...

Read the introduction to Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, edited by top American labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti.   With ...

Read an excerpt from The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forret, recipient of the Frederick Douglass Prize. In a work of profoundly ...

By Sade Collier, Fall 2024 intern   ‘Tis the season for gifting books. To close out the year, we’re highlighting eleven books published in 2024 that received starred reviews. Find ...

In recognition of International Human Solidarity Day, and as part of Universal Human Rights Month, The New Press has prepared a Human Rights Reading list! International Human Solidarity Day began ...

By Naomi Tomlin, Fall 2024 Iintern   The end of the year is a time to reflect and recommit. Although this has been a year of uncertainty and disappointment, it ...

By Sade Collier (blog post) & Naomi Tomlin (video), Fall 2024 interns The 2024 primary election season is defined by its missed marks. Take this astute essay by our next-door ...

By Anne Kim, author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Off America's Poor Jackson Hewitt is one of America’s largest tax preparation chains, with nearly six thousand outlets nationwide ...

By Sade Collier, Fall 2024 intern Anyone seeking to concern themselves with domestic and foreign policy should consider the prolific archive from Noam Chomsky’s tenure as a linguist and social ...

By Naomi Tomlin, Fall 2024 intern   In honor of legendary author and oral historian Studs Terkel, we’ve put together excerpts from five of his most iconic books. Terkel defined ...

Read an excerpt from A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It by Judge Frederic Block. In a rare glimpse behind the bench, Judge Block recounts the cases ...

Read an excerpt from The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law by the renowned Nation columnist—aka the Mad Law Professor—Patricia ...

Read an excerpt from The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by renowned death penalty lawyer Stephen B. Bright and ...

Read the introduction to Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor. A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean ...

Read an excerpt from Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System by award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel. Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose ...

Read an excerpt from Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by veteran journalist Anne Kim. A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex," a vast web ...

By Sade Collier, Fall 2024 intern   To celebrate National Author’s Day, we wanted to highlight the stellar work of authors who recently published debut books here at The New ...