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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 ...

Lore Segal was a master storyteller known for capturing the immigrant experience with wit and a keen eye, with the New York Times Book Review once saying, “Lore Segal may ...

LORE SEGAL March 8, 1928–October 7, 2024 The New Press is deeply saddened to note the passing of Lore Segal, a master storyteller known for her wit and keen eye, ...

Rooted in the American labor movement, Labor Day honors the landmark achievements in the struggle for workers’ rights that has continued from generation to generation. The fight to secure fair ...

  Women’s Equality Day honors the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. In celebration of this landmark success ...

Interviewing wasn’t just something Terkel did for his books. For over fifty years, he had a radio show on Chicago’s WFMT station wherein he spoke to luminaries from every discipline ...

In the fall of 2008, NPR’s StoryCorps aired an episode with Studs Terkel. Like any of his interviews, it too begins with a question. “Whatever happened to the human voice?” ...

The new HBO documentary Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion has been making waves for its bold and shocking coverage of teen clothing franchise Brandy Melville. In the ...

Read the first chapter from the graphic adaptation of Lies My teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, adapted and illustrated by Nate Powell. Since its first publication in the ...

  Silver Repetition: A Novel By Lily Wang In a word, SILVER REPETITION is dreamy. Lily Wang’s debut novel “brims with delicate imagery and flights of imagination” (@publishersweekly). When the ...

In Blackbirds Singing, a collection of public addresses by inspirational Black women, Janet Dewart Bell recognizes their powerful voices, vision, and efforts toward a more just society. Bell takes the ...

In Blackbirds Singing, renowned author Janet Dewart Bell has curated an incredible collection highlighting influential Black women who fought and continue to fight for liberation. Featuring the inspirational vision of ...

We're still riding high from the 2023 Social Justice Awards Gala, where we had the pleasure of honoring Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Steven Pico, the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case on ...

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re highlighting the books we published this year that received starred reviews and other major endorsements—for your gift-giving needs or just for planning your ...

Widely considered Palestine’s leading writer, Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer, activist, and founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq. The winner of the Orwell Prize and many other accolades, Shehadeh’s ...