Reading Lists

For more than thirty years, The New Press has been a leading publisher of diverse narratives and books that provide cutting-edge analyses and critical perspectives. As a not-for-profit, public interest ...

Over the last few years we’ve seen a rise in attacks targeting communities, classrooms, cultural spaces, and more in school districts, cities, and states across the country. These attacks are ...

Over the last few years we’ve seen a rise in attacks targeting communities, classrooms, cultural spaces, and more in school districts, cities, and states across the country. These attacks are ...

Over the last few years we’ve seen a rise in attacks targeting communities, classrooms, cultural spaces, and more in school districts, cities, and states across the country. These attacks are ...

May 1 is International Workers' Day (also known as May Day), a day to honor laborers, labor movements, and the fight for workers’ rights. Today, we're seeing historic strikes and ...

Efforts by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to ban books in schools and the College Board’s decision to revise their AP African American Studies curriculum made national headlines this week, in ...

As our thirtieth anniversary year comes to a close, we’re highlighting 2022 titles that received starred reviews and other major endorsements—for your gift-giving needs or just for planning your own ...

Howard Zinn would have turned one hundred years old on August 24 this year. A lifelong activist and historian, Zinn took a famously democratic approach to telling the American story ...

Whether by the ocean or on the neighborhood park bench, we think the best part of the summer season is reading outdoors. And while rom-coms and thrillers might get top ...

Saturday, April 30th is Independent Bookstore Day, a day to celebrate and show some love to the indie bookstores who provide an invaluable service as cultural anchors in our communities, ...

The original organizers of Earth Day, celebrated in the United States on April 22nd every year since 1970 and globally since the 1990s, were inspired by the campus teach-ins and ...

The second year of the global pandemic was not without its challenges, but 2021 also brought extraordinary recognition of The New Press’s mission of publishing books that promote and enrich ...

Who knows books better than independent booksellers? No one, if you ask us. This year, we talked with people at some of our most-beloved indie stores to see what titles ...

Earlier this month the Swedish Academy announced Abdulrazak Gurnah as this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making Gurnah the first Black African writer to win the most ...

Nationally observed since 1988, Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15. It’s an annual occasion to recognize revolutionary independence movements in seven Latin American countries, celebrate—and critique—social ...

  August is Women in Translation Month. It was started in 2014 by Meytal Radzinski in 2014 to honor women writers and translators from around the world and how women ...

Summer is finally here! Whether you’re headed to the beach or just hitting the local park, if you’re like us, warmer weather means having a little more time to dig ...

The traditional construction of gender is one of the pillars of a capitalist society. For decades LGBTQ people have challenged those constructions, and faced violence to do so. For Pride month, ...

Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 destruction of the Palestinian homeland and the displacement of its people. Now, as violence escalates in the region and the ...

Black women have been at the forefront of movements for justice and liberation for centuries—though their histories and voices have often been overlooked. As we continue to reflect on the ...

We published many wonderful books this year that challenge the narrative of history, confront inequities in our society, that champion racial justice, and that provide a vision for a better ...

The traditional construction of gender is one of the pillars of a capitalist society, for the creation of new generations of compliant labor. For decades, feminists and LGBTQ people have ...

What does it mean to resist? What tools do ordinary people have to counteract injustice, when the system is so much bigger and more powerful than we are? What is ...

COVID-19 has thrown the fragile state of American labor into sharp relief, as the Trump administration scrambles to further dismantle protections for workers. Proposition 22 has passed in California, with ...