The New Press: 370 books
Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe
A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller
Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look...
After the Education Wars
How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Strong sales track: The Man Who Discovered Quality was a bestseller in the U.S. and Japan, with nearly 30,000 copies sold in each market. Her other books sold more than 15,000 copies each.
Good review history: Gabor’s books have been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street...
Founding Myths
Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With Raphael’s trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposed the errors and inventions in America’s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere’s...
After the Fall
New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
New Yorkers remember 9/11 in this landmark volume of oral history commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks—A “staggering book of living memory” (Booklist, starred review).
Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia’s Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across...
The World Will Follow Joy
Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A poetry collection of “playful and crooning lyricism” from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Booklist).
In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly...
Brown Is the New White
How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America’s new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 election
With a new preface and afterword by the author
When it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016...
Republic of Outsiders
The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“Vivid portraits” of individuals and subcultures by a writer who “unmasks the assumptions we make about what counts as normal” (The New York Times).
They are outsiders who seek to redefine fields from mental health to diplomacy to music. They push boundaries and transform ideas. They...
Only One Thing Can Save Us
Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Is labor’s day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived—but different—labor movement is now more relevant than ever...
Rules for Resistance
Advice from Around the Globe for the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Some of us have been here before. Many people living today in America and around the world have direct experience with countries where an autocrat has seized control. Others have seen charismatic, populist leaders come to power within democracies and dramatically change the rules of the road for the...
Reclaiming Gotham
Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End Americas Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the future
In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de...
Killing Machine
The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States’ leadership role...
by Daniel Boyarin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
“[A] fascinating recasting of the story of Jesus.” —Elliot Wolfson, New York University
In July 2008, a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the...
Gone Tomorrow
The Hidden Life of Garbage
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review).
Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering...
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis...