The Bridge

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 ...

How do underdogs, facing far stronger opponents, sometimes win? In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s ...

In times of turmoil books become important resources that can elucidate history, can provide nuance to news headlines, and can examine and illuminate some of the most important issues of ...

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick argue that one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip ...

By Dora Usdan, Summer 2023 intern Norman Solomon’s new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine examines the tactics used by the United ...

Ken Grossinger has had an impressive career as an organizer, activist, and mentor to young movement workers. In his newly published book Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating ...

In our opinion, there is no better day than one spent out in the sun with the company of a good book. While most people lean on romance, mystery, or ...

For more than thirty years, The New Press has published books that facilitate social change, enrich public discourse, and defend democratic values. The New Press has now joined other First ...

The New Press is thrilled that Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis was named a 2023 James Beard Foundation ...

Monique Couvson’s trailblazing book Pushout laid the groundwork for understanding how our schools are failing Black girls; her follow-up, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues, provided a blueprint for their ...

Susan Burton, co-author or Becoming Ms. Burton and founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project, was named an honoree of NBC News' "Inspiring America: The Inspiration List." "Inspiring ...