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Book Workers in Solidarity with Amazon Workers
By: Derek
March 26, 2021

The New Press is joining publishing workers on Friday, March 26th for . . .

10 Books by Black Women to Read This Women's History Month
By: emily
March 22, 2021

Black women have been at the forefront of movements for justice and liberation for centuries—though their histories and voices have often been . . .

The New Press Remembers James Ridgeway
By: Derek
February 16, 2021
JAMES RIDGEWAY
November 1, 1936–Saturday, February 13, 2021
 
The New Press Remembers Michael Apted
By: Derek
January 15, 2021


Best of 2020
By: Derek
December 24, 2020

We published many wonderful books this year that challenge the narrative of history, confront inequities in our society, that champion racial . . .

Worker Power Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

COVID-19 has thrown the fragile state of American labor into sharp relief, as the Trump administration scrambles to further dismantle . . .

Antiracist Education Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

Education is where capitalism, racism, and policing intersect, resulting in what we know as the “school to prison pipeline.” These . . .

Fiction Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

There can be no transformation of our world without imagination, and imagination is the bedrock of literature.

Feminism and Queer Studies Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

The traditional construction of gender is one of the pillars of a capitalist society, for the creation of new generations of compliant . . .

Social Justice and the Law Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

The visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality has drawn attention to a deeper conversation.

Radical Theory and Practice Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

What does it mean to resist?

Criminal (In)Justice Gift Guide 2020
By: emily
November 18, 2020

This summer the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and many more Black people at the hands of the police sparked . . .

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