The New Press is excited to share our Spring 2023 catalog, which includes books to be published between March and August 2023. Our spring season celebrates women’s voices reclaiming current and historical narratives, empowers individuals to create a world aligned with their values, and sheds light on systemic issues in our global society.

For the New Press blog, veteran journalist William Kleinknecht offers important takeaways from the midterm elections, reflecting on what progressives can learn from gains and losses alike.

The Black Lives Matter movement, reinvigorated during the summer 2020 uprisings, galvanized hundreds of thousands of people into the streets and ushered the slogan “defund the police” into wide circulation. But over the past two years, as targeted communities and abolitionist organizers have proposed radical, imaginative alternatives to the violence of policing, “defund” has been shouted down in many places, in favor of minimal efforts toward police reform.