The New Press: 370 books
The Eye of the Leopard
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
From the creator of the acclaimed Kurt Wallander series: A thrilling story set in Sweden and Zambia told with “heart-stopping tension” (Entertainment Weekly).
Interweaving past and present, The Eye of the Leopard draws on bestselling author Henning Mankell’s deep understanding of both...
The Boy Who Could Change the World
The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
A demented killer is on the warpath and only Wallander can stop him: “Mankell at his best . . . If you haven’t bought Sidetracked, do so ASAP” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Inspector Kurt Wallander’s long-anticipated vacation plans are interrupted by two horrific deaths: the self-immolation...
by Henning Mankell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
From the #1 international-bestselling master of Scandinavian noir: a “marvelously told mystery” of murder in Sweden and corruption in Africa (Austin American-Statesman).
In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are found with their throats slit. The local police do little...
A Bite-Sized History of France
Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Very successful genre: From Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence to A.J. Liebling’s Between Meals, from Graham Robb’s Discovery of France to Julia Child’s My Life in France, books that allow the reader to live vicariously Through the writer’s experience with French food and culture have a strong...
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive...
Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A debut in the tradition of Mary Roach by a prize-winning journalist: Mary Otto is the leading U.S. journalist covering oral health and dentistry, has won major industry awards, and is the recipient of national fellowships to support her work.
Opportunities: Dental care access burst onto the...
Amazonia
Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A “funny, contemplative” memoir of working at Amazon in the early years, when it was a struggling online bookstore (San Francisco Chronicle).
In a book that Ian Frazier has called “a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising morality tale from deep inside the Internet boom,” James Marcus,...
The Coffee Book
Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that’s “good to the last sentence” (Las Cruces Sun News).
One of Library Journal’s “Best Business Books”
This updated edition of The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee...
The Age of Aspiration
Power, Wealth, and Conflict in Globalizing India
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro’s Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi’s government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply the best book on India.” Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic liberalization that began in 1991, which...
Under the Bus
How Working Women Are Being Run Over
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
“Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor
For women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and...
by Studs Terkel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city.
Chicago was home to the country’s first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace...
Bordered Lives
Transgender Portraits from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A richly evocative collection of photographs by internationally renowned photographer Kike Arnal, Bordered Lives seeks to push back against the transphobic caricatures that have perpetuated discrimination against the transgender community in Mexico. Despite some important advances in recognizing and...
Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering
Japan in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan” from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize (Kirkus Reviews).
Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship...