The New Press: 370 books
The Martin Duberman Reader
The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
“A wonderful introduction to Duberman’s writing but is also a fitting tribute to a man who has devoted his life to promoting social change” (Publishers Weekly).
For the past fifty years, prize-winning historian Martin Duberman’s groundbreaking writings have established him as one of...
Special Envoy
A Spy Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
World-class, prize-winning novelist: Echenoz is a winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone and a literary luminary in France. His previous novels, including Ravel, Running, 1914, and Lightning, which have been shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and have won the Prix...
Lyudmila and Natasha
Russian Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The photojournalist Misha Friedman is renowned for his efforts to capture life in contemporary Russia, documenting subjects as varied as political corruption, the dangers of coal mining, the tuberculosis epidemic, and the Bolshoi Ballet. In publications ranging from the New York Times, the Washington...
The Ghosts of Langley
Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Publishing into the 70th anniversary of the CIA and a new era under Donald Trump: John Prados is one of the world’s leading authorities on the CIA and his new, up-to-date history is the first to locate the Agency’s current behavior and challenges in the face of authority—whether it be the Senate...
Betting on Famine
Why the World Still Goes Hungry
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“The seminal book on global poverty and hunger . . . How rapacious speculators and complicit bureaucrats are starving a billion people” (Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of Foodopoly).
Few people know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in...
The Self Beyond Itself
An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).
Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they...
Out
LGBTQ Poland
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Serial: The previous books in the series were picked up for serial in major LGBTQ publications, such as The Advocate, and there is a strong likelihood that this will be too.
Series promotion: Our series of photo books is now six books strong.
Social media: Nabrdalk has 15,200 followers...
The Hamlet Fire
A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Previous books have gained major review attention: Bryant Simon’s work has been featured in the New Yorker, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Phoenix and AP. He has done dozens of national and local radio interviews, and appeared on BBC, CNN, HBO, Nightline, and Dateline NBC.
An...
Minutes of Glory
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of Crows has sold over 20,000 copies in all editions, including 8K in hard cover
Ngũgĩ’s books have received glowing blurbs and reviews from The Guardian, The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times Book...
by Elizabeth Weill-greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
So you’re walking out of school and parked at the gate is a new, bright red Ford Mustang with a hulk of a man in the front seat. He’s sporting a razor cut and wraparound shades. Before you can pass he’s out of the car and blocking your path. "Mind if I take a minute"—he has you by...
The Kids
The Children of LGBTQ Parents in the USA
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
New York Times/Guardian article: The book builds on photographs featured in the New York Times in 2015 as part of an article written by Gabriela Herman for the Sunday Review Exposures column called "What Could Gay Marriage Mean for the Kids?" The photos were also featured in a cover story for The...
Not a Crime to Be Poor
The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Strong sales track: So Rich, So Poor sold 15,000 in all editions combined, including 8500 hardcover.
Hot issue: Hits the intersection of criminal justice and inequality.
Extensive radio and TV attention: Author did dozens of interviews for previous book including Tavis Smiley, Moyers...
A School of Our Own
The Story of the First Student-Run High School and a New Vision for American Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
**The remarkable true story of the high school junior who started his own school—and earned acclaim nationwide—“**will make you laugh, cry and cheer” (John Merrow, author of The Influence of Teachers).
Samuel Levin, a teenager who had already achieved international fame for creating...
Thick
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, “incisive, witty, and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister)
“Thick...