The New Press: 370 books
The New Nuclear Danger
George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
A global leader of the antinuclear movement delivers “a meticulous, urgent, and shocking report” on US weapons policy and the imminent dangers it poses (Booklist).
First published in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, The New Nuclear Danger sounded the alarm against a neoconservative...
The New Analog
Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A pointedly passionate look at what’s been lost in the digital era.” —Los Angeles Times
A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital....
Slave Old Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Media attention: Texaco received laudatory review attention from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, Washington Post and was chosen as a New York Times Book of the Year.
Prize-winning acclaimed author: Chamoiseau is the winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt and...
How Do I Explain This to My Kids?
Parenting in the Age of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Hot topic: Parents of all denominations and persuasions have been grappling with how to explain the state of affairs to their children and will continue to do so for the next four years.
Author track record: Dr. Ava Siegler is a preeminent child psychologist and her book What Shall We Tell...
The New Threat
The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
From Syria to Somalia, from Libya to Indonesia, from Yemen to the capitals of Europe, Islamic militancy appears stronger, more widespread, and more threatening than ever.
In The New Threat prizewinning frontline reporter Jason Burke cuts through the mass of opinion and misinformation to explain...
Decarcerating America
From Mass Punishment to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Bestselling category: The New Press is the country’s leading criminal justice publisher. Invisible Punishment, also an anthology, sold over 13,300 copies combined.
Unparalleled expertise: Ernest Drucker “owns” the idea of mass incarceration as an epidemic, and is the leading public health...
Pride & Joy
Taking the Streets of New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A celebration of the New York City Pride Parade documented in a dazzling series of photographs, with a major introductory essay by comedian and activist Kate Clinton
More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets of New York City on the first anniversary...
The New Black
What Has Changed--and What Has Not--with Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country’s most celebrated and original thinkers on race-historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural...
Playing in the Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker).
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Windham Campbell Prize winner Zoë Wicomb’s celebrated novel revolves around Marion...
Shortfall
Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sales track record: Her book Scars of Sweet Paradise sold over 11,000 copies.
Media track record: Echols’ previous books have received national review attention in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, People, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Elle, and many other publications....
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
**A “**stunningly insightful” essay collection from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Publishers Weekly).
From the prolific writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker, comes a compilation of writing and speeches on advocacy, struggle, and hope....
by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
International bestseller: Kurt Wallander and his daughter join forces to hunt for a ritual killer in this “gripping, beautifully orchestrated” mystery (The New York Times Book Review).
Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she’s waiting to start work with...
The Cultural Cold War
The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal...
Dr. Seuss Goes to War
The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
“A fascinating collection” of wartime cartoons from the beloved children’s author and illustrator (The New York Times Book Review).
For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know...