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![]() Fearless Books for a Perilous Year: The New Press 2020 Gift GuideBy: emilyNovember 18, 2020 As 2020 draws to a close many of us are weary and frightened, but hopeful. |
![]() Read an Excerpt from WasteBy: DerekNovember 17, 2020 Waste, activist Catherine Coleman Flowers's new memoir traces her evolution from . . . |
![]() Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Catherine Coleman FlowersBy: DerekNovember 17, 2020 2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers's work fighting for basic sanitation addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time—public . . . |
![]() Abandoned by Anne Kim Awarded the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeBy: DerekOctober 30, 2020 Anne Kim's Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection has won the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize . . . |
![]() Author Events Replay: August & September 2020By: DerekOctober 23, 2020 We might not be able meet in the real world, but online events have been able to bring more of us together and have provided an opportunity for . . . |
![]() Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Andrew GumbelBy: DerekOctober 14, 2020 A college education has long been touted as a path to success, but earning a degree and navigating the bureaucracy of the institutions that grant . . . |
![]() Champions of Literacy, an online event with Literacy PartnersBy: DerekOctober 13, 2020 Literacy Partners, an adult education non-profit based in New York City with programs across the country, is hosting a series of online events . . . |
![]() The Story of the Chicago Seven and the Infamous 1969 TrialBy: DerekOctober 12, 2020 Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Trial of the Chicago 7 releases for streaming on Netflix . . . |
![]() A Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Reading ListBy: DerekOctober 7, 2020 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is one of the giants of contemporary literature. |
![]() New Press Authors Among the 2020 MacArthur FellowsBy: DerekOctober 6, 2020 Every year the MacArthur Foundation announces a new class of fellows. |
![]() Happy Birthday Andrea Dworkin! A Timeline of Dworkin's Life and WorkBy: emilySeptember 26, 2020 One of the most controversial and iconoclastic feminists of the twentieth century, Andrea Dworkin was born on this day in 1946. |
![]() Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Lawrence RosenthalBy: AnonymousSeptember 15, 2020 In 2016, American right-wing populists migrated from the free marketeering Tea Party to Donald Trump’s “hard hat,” anti-immigrant, America-First . . . |