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Best of 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

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

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

Fiction Gift Guide

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

Feminism and Queer Studies Gift Guide

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

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

Radical Theory and Practice Gift Guide

What does it mean to resist?

Fearless Books for a Perilous Year: The New Press 2020 Gift Guide

As 2020 draws to a close many of us are weary and frightened, but hopeful.

Criminal (In)Justice Gift Guide 2020

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

Read an Excerpt from Waste

Waste, activist Catherine Coleman Flowers's new memoir traces her evolution from . . .

Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers

2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers's work fighting for basic sanitation addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time—public . . .