Arts/Culture/Film

The Sylvia Chronicles

30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

Nicole Hollander

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: Three decades of questionable American fashions, relationships, and politics - as seen through the eyes of one of our most beloved comic characters.

Lives We Carry with Us

Profiles of Moral Courage

Robert Coles

Edited by David D. Cooper

A dozen brilliant portraits by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Andrew Greeley described as a “social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storytelling, mystic, wise man, poet dissenter"

The World Has Changed

Conversations with Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd

A stunning illumination of the heart and mind of one of the world’s most celebrated living writers

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists

André Schiffrin

Now in paperback: The captivating World War II–era political cartoons of Dr. Seuss alongside the work of legendary cartoonists Saul Steinberg, Al Hirschfeld, and others

A Bomb in Every Issue

How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

Peter Richardson

Now in paperback: A lavishly praised "lively history"  (Los Angeles Times) of Ramparts—the magazine that brought the New Left into American living rooms in the '60s and made an indelible imprint on American journalism

Examined Life

Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers

Edited by Astra Taylor

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Eight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a 2008 Toronto International Film Festival premiere

Front Lines

Political Plays by American Women

Edited by Alexis Greene and Shirley Lauro

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the country’s leading female playwrights, seven brilliant plays on the hot-button issues of our time

Fakers

Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders

Paul Maliszewski

For anyone who has ever lied—or been lied to—true-life tales about faking, from Clifford Irving to Stephen Glass, by an award-winning writer

Al' America

Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots

Jonathan Curiel

From surf music to the ice cream cone—a lively and eye-opening look at the little-known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America, by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist

Radical Acts

Collected Political Plays

Martin Duberman

Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual

Jews and American Comics

An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

Edited by Paul Buhle

A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledge masters and little known-stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb

Touch and Go

A Memoir

Studs Terkel

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The extaordinary, widely praised memoir—“a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece” (Oliver Sacks)

Harlem on My Mind

Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–1968

Edited by Allon Schoener

PAPERBACK “Harlem on My Mind provoked outrage in 1969. The issues it raised are no less alive today.” —The New York Times, 1995

Gun Show Nation

Gun Culture and American Democracy

Joan Burbick

NOW IN PAPERBACK A stunning new exposé of the roots of American gun culture

The Coffee Book

Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop

Nina Luttinger, Gregory Dicum

REVISED AND UPDATED A compact guide to the beverage that keeps us running

The Soul of Politics

A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change

Jim Wallis

From the bestselling author of God's Politics, a seminal call to reintegrate politics and spirituality

Censoring Culture

Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

Edited by Robert Atkins and Svetlana Mintcheva

A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond

Rednecks & Bluenecks

The Politics of Country Music

Chris Willman

NOW IN PAPERBACK An up-close-and-personal take on country music’s vast political discord, hailed by The Economist as “excellent”

Better to Reign in Hell

Inside the Raiders Fan Empire

Jim Miller, Kelly Mayhew

A season with the infamous fans of the football team everyone loves to hate

And They All Sang

Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey

Studs Terkel

NOW IN PAPERBACK the Pulitzer Prize winner’s “latest indispensable oral history” (New York Times) of the twentieth century’s most celebrated musicians

Husband of a Fanatic

A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

Amitava Kumar

A lyrical journey into the heart of hatred

Hatchet Jobs

Writings on Contemporary Fiction

Dale Peck

NOW IN PAPERBACK The cover may have softened, but the polemic remains durable

Amazonia

Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut

James Marcus

NOW IN PAPERBACK Employee #55’s story of the first five years of Amazon.com, which “brims with fascinating Amazoniana” (The Los Angeles Times)

The Vatican to Vegas

A History of Special Effects

Norman M. Klein

What Should I Do if Reverend Billy Is in My Store?

Bill Talen

The spiritual leader of the renowned Church of Stop Shopping takes his anticonsumerist sermon from the stage to the page

Eugène Atget

Unknown Paris

David R. Harris

Chimes of Freedom

The Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art

Mike Marqusee

The Dream Life

Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

J. Hoberman

A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s

Radical Hollywood

The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies

Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema’s golden age

Bronzeville

Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943
NOW IN PAPERBACK A powerful collection of WPA images of black Chicago's defining moment

Math and Science Across Cultures

Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium

Maurice Bazin, Modesto Tamez, The Exploratorium Teacher Institute

Innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures, from one of the world’s foremost science museums

Gender on Planet Earth

Ann Oakley

An iconoclastic feminist’s provocative analysis of gender inequality’s destructive effects on our society and our planet

The Land Where the Blues Began

Alan Lomax

Winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country

Giants of Jazz

Studs Terkel

NOW IN PAPERBACK A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel’s timeless portraits of America’s jazz legends, for readers of all ages

Nothing to Hide

Mental Illness in the Family

Jean J. Beard, Peggy Gillespie

A compelling collection of family photographs and moving first-person narratives about people living with mental illness

The Unfinished City

New York and the Metropolitan Idea

Thomas Bender

Barbed Wire

A Political History

Olivier Razac

From the devil’s rope to no man’s land, “A vital work of cultural criticism” (Publishers Weekly)

Movies on Trial

The Legal System on the Silver Screen

Anthony Chase

Unexpected Chicagoland

Camilo José Vergara, Timothy Samuelson

An exquisite homage to Chicago’s architecture and people, from the renowned documentary photographer and the acclaimed architectural historian

Discovering America

Travels in the Land of Guns, God, and Corporate Gurus

James Laxer

An outsider’s irreverent and piercing look at the world’s remaining superpower

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

Studs Terkel

A major new oral history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner, dealing with the universal experience of death

Literary Debate

Texts and Contexts, Postwar French Thought, Volume II

Edited by Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman

Now available in paperback, key texts from leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism.

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Richard H. Minear

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

Crossroads

Art and Religion in American Life

Edited by Alberta Arthurs and Glenn Wallach

Seven leading scholars and experts reveal the close ties between art and religion in American culture

Antiquities

Postwar French Thought, Volume III

Edited by Nicole Loraux, Gregory Nagy, and Laura Slatkin

The third volume in the “timely and ambitious” (Boston Book Review) New Press Postwar French Thought Series

The Cultural Cold War

The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

Frances Stonor Saunders

NOW IN PAPERBACK “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” (The New York Times)

Visionaries and Outcasts

The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America

Michael Brenson

Cigarettes

Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke

Tara Parker-Pope

Bandits

Eric Hobsbawm

On the Beaten Track

Tourism, Art, and Place

Lucy R. Lippard

Mixed Blessings

New Art in a Multicultural America

Lucy R. Lippard

The Politics of Culture

Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities

Edited by Gigi Bradford, Michael Gary, and Glenn Wallach

Berenice Abbott

Changing New York

Bonnie Yochelson

NEWLY REISSUED After being out of print for several years, a stunning book of photographs that was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Newsday best Book of the Year

42 Up

Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Show You the Man"

Edited by Bennett L. Singer

The Studs Terkel Interviews

Film and Theater

Studs Terkel

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen

Knowledges

Culture, Counterculture, Subculture

Peter Worsley

Over Exposed

Essays on Contemporary Photography

Edited by Carol Squires

The Anti-Aesthetic

Essays on Postmodern Culture

Edited by Hal Foster

American Dreams

Lost and Found

Studs Terkel

Here is the raw material for one thousand novels. . . incomparable.  —MARGARET ATWOOD

The Unreal America

Architecture and Illusion

Ada Louise Huxtable

Zig Zag

The Politics of Culture and Vice Versa

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Visual Display

Culture Beyond Appearances: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #10

Edited by Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen

Recodings

Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics

Hal Foster

Vision and Visuality

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #2

Edited by Hal Foster

The Work of Andy Warhol

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #3

Edited by Gary Garrels

Remaking History

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #4

Edited by Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani

Critical Fictions

The Politics of Imaginative Writing: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #7

Edited by Philomena Mariani

If You Lived Here

The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #6

Martha Rossler

Edited by Brian Wallis

Black Popular Culture

Discussions in Contemporary Culture #8

Michele Wallace

The Sneaker Book

Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon

Tom Vanderbilt

The Crisis of Criticism

Edited by Maurice Berger

Room Service

Reports from Eastern Europe

Richard Swartz

The Lure of the Local

Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

Lucy R. Lippard

PAPERBACK the classic exploration of our multiple senses of place, by one of America’s most influential art writers

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Michel Foucault

Edited by James D. Faubion

Women in the 19th Century

Categories and Contradictions

Linda Nochlin, Joelle Bolloch

The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers

Edited by Daphne Muse

Recipe of Memory

Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine

Victor M. Valle, Mary Lau Valle

The Last Innocent White Man in America

And Other Writings

John Leonard

Asian Art Portfolio

Masterpieces from the Asia Society

Asia Society

The Native American Look Book

Art and Activities for Kids from The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

Shades of L.A.

Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums

Carolyn Kozo Cole, Kathy Kobayashi

The Art of Ancient Egypt

Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

Picturing Us

African American Identity in Photography

Edited by Deborah Willis

China Pop

How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

Jianying Zha

Ellis Island

Georges Perec

Robes of Splendor

Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides

George P. Horse Capture, Anne Vitart, Michael Waldberger

Civil Wars

From L.A. to Bosnia

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The WPA Guide to New York City

Federal Writers Project

Art on My Mind

Visual Politics

bell hooks

Art of the American Indian Frontier

A Portfolio

David W. Penney, Detroit Institute of Arts

English Is Broken Here

Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas

Coco Fusco

The Future Lasts Forever

A Memoir

Louis Althusser

Overlay

Contemporary Art and Art of Prehistory

Lucy R. Lippard

The Pink Glass Swan

Selected Feminist Essays on Art

Lucy R. Lippard

Making History

Writings on History and Culture

E.P. Thompson

Shooting Back from the Reservation

A Photographic View of Life by Native American Youth

Jim Hubbard

Portraits of Native Americans

Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Charles H. Carpenter

Past Imperfect

A Museum Looks at Itself

Donna De Salvo

A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi corazón

The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza

African Art Portfolio

An Illustrated Introduction: Masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries

Carol Thompson

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy

A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars

Marjorie Heins

Shared Visions

Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Margaret Archuleta and Rennard Strickland

Daughters of the Dust

The Making of an African American Woman’s Film

Julie Dash

Asian Americans

Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia

Joann Faung Jean Lee

The Play of the Unmentionable

An Installation by Joseph Kosuth

David Freedberg

Power and Culture

Essays on the American Working Class

Herb G. Gutman

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