The New Press: 370 books
Extremely Loud
Sound as a Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“Everything you ever suspected or feared about music as a weapon, sound as torture . . . Disturbingly illuminating in the possible ramifications**” (Kirkus Reviews).**
In this troubling and wide-ranging account, acclaimed journalist Juliette Volcler looks at the long history of efforts...
Labor Rising
The Past and Future of Working People in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back on the nation’s front pages. It was a fleeting reminder of a not-so-distant past when...
Hold Fast to Dreams
A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award
Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance...
Electoral Dysfunction
A Survival Manual for American Voters
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Imagine a country where the right to vote is not guaranteed by the Constitution, where the candidate with the most votes loses, and where paperwork requirements and bureaucratic bungling disenfranchise millions. You’re living in it. If the consequences weren’t so serious, it would be funny.
An...
LGBTQ Stats
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Award
An essential handbook of myth-busting facts and figures about the real lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people**
Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United...
The Meaning of Life
The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
**“I can think of no authors more qualified to research the complex impact of life sentences than Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis. They have the expertise to track down the information that all citizens need to know and the skills to translate that research into accessible and powerful prose.”
—Heather...
A Perilous Path
Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Huge names: Stevenson’s Just Mercy has sold over 400,000 copies, Lynch was Attorney General of the US from 2015 to 2017, Sherrilyn Ifill is the current head of the NAACP Legal Defense fund, the force behind the landmark Texas Voting Rights Act lawsuit, Tony Thompson is a well-known, well-connected,...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
“A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell’s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending...
Tropic of Football
The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Moneyball, Soccernomics and the Sports Gene have become hugely successful by trying to unravel and explain sporting excellence. The Tropic of Football joins these books by taking an in-depth social and cultural look at the Samoan sporting cultures as found in the Samoan islands, Hawaii and California.
There...
Before I Do
A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A comprehensive guide to marriage—perks, consequences, and everything in between—aimed at the LGBTQ+ community, from a leading gay rights lawyer.
Not long ago, same-sex couples had to jump through endless hoops to make their relationships even close to legal. Happily, those days are over....
North of Havana
The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From one of America’s leading legal minds, a riveting look at the U.S.-Cuban relationship seen through the lens of a nearly impossible case
During his distinguished career, Martin Garbus has established himself as a well-known trial lawyer representing the likes of Daniel Ellsberg and Leonard...
The Muses Go to School
Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts in Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rosie Perez, and Phylicia Rashad have in common? A transformative encounter with the arts during their school years. Whether attending a play for the first time, playing in the school orchestra, painting a mural under the direction of an art teacher,...
by Romesh Gunesekera
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Already hailed as “intricate and compelling” by the Times Literary Supplement, The Sandglass is a striking novel by Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera, a 1994 Booker Prize finalist for his first novel, Reef.
Set in London where the Sri Lankan narrator lives, The Sandglass tells the story...
The Devil in Dover
An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A brilliant account” of the controversial 2005 legal battle between evolution and creationism in public education “by a first-rate journalist” (Howard Zinn).
In 2004, the School Board of Dover, Pennsylvania, decided to require its ninth-grade biology students to learn intelligent design—a...