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Organizing America by Erik Loomis ● 26
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Featured Titles: Progressive Public Policies from Across the Globe
Another City Is Possible Lessons for American Cities from Around the Globe
Natasha Hakimi Zapata Spring 2028 (est.)
Hardcover 100,000 words
World, all languages
“The World Bank estimates that by 2050 nearly 7 of every 10 people in the world will live in cities. What this will look like is in many ways still unknown, but one thing this estimate makes clear is that it’s absolutely urgent that we reconsider what those cities will look like and what they will offer inhabitants before and as they grow. Nowhere is this rethink more pressing than in the United States.”
Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled to cities around the world, from Vienna to Geel, Belgium, Valencia, Tokyo, Glasgow, Medellín, Rosario, Argentina , Curitiba, Brazil , Seoul and London, uncovering how different cities solve the problems that plague United States cities. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another City Is Possible examines innovative programs that address infrastructure, public health, social services, employment, income, climate change, housing, education, and more. In each instance Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and realworld impact of these programs. The result is a compelling, frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.
Topics included in Another City Is Possible:
• What’s the most sustainable and efficient way to organize a city’s public transportation system?
• How do we care for a city’s most vulnerable residents in both humane and inspiring ways?
• What happens when a city treats housing as a human right?
• Why are cities failing to tap into their residents’ own knowledge, arguably their most important resource?
• What can we do to make cities more resilient in this age of rolling crises? How can cities engage citizens while also inspiring and supporting them in the sorts of pursuits that make cities stimulating places to live?
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere. The former foreign editor of Truthdig, she lives in London.
Praise for Another World Is Possible: "Hakimi Zapata examines how other nations have successfully addressed social conditions that continue to vex America."
The New York Times Book Review
"Another World Is Possible is a worldwide journey exploring how some of the most advanced social policies emerged only after those respective countries’ darkest times."
Meghna Chakrabarti, NPR’s On Point
"Even if you don’t believe the ‘America is the best country in the world’ propaganda, I think it can be hard for Americans to remember that the ‘American Way’ isn’t the only way. That’s why I’m so excited for Another World Is Possible, a book that offers international solutions to American problems."
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"From Norway’s generous family policies to Singapore’s innovative public housing model, Another World Is Possible offers a refreshing and desperately needed perspective on what’s achievable when societies prioritize the common good."
Meagan Day, Jacobin
"Another World Is Possible could not be more important for our present moment. By profiling successful social democratic policies around the world, Natasha Hakimi Zapata demonstrates that progressive ideas are not unrealistic or utopian. They work. Not only does she convincingly and thoroughly explain how housing, healthcare, education, and criminal punishment can be transformed, but she tells the history of how heroic activists around the world successfully organized to change their countries. To those seeking inspiration for their own activism in dark times, this book is an indispensable guide to what we can do if we work together."
Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief, Current Affairs
"Full of lessons for American activists on how to bring enhanced social welfare programs into reality, despite the odds."
Kirkus Reviews
"Zapata debuts with an illuminating survey of how America’s most pressing social issues have been handled by other countries. . . . The result is a fascinating and inspiring glimpse of how rational governance operates."
Publishers Weekly
"This distinctive book looks to other countries for solutions to social and environmental problems in the United States."
Library Journal
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Featured Titles: Art and Intersectionality
Art on My Mind
Visual Politics
bell hooks
Forword by Mickalene Thomas
May 27, 2025
Paperback
304 pages
World, all languages
THE CANONICAL WORK OF CULTURAL CRITICISM BY THE “PROFOUNDLY INFLUENTIAL CRITIC” (ARTNET), IN A BEAUTIFUL THIRTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY ESTEEMED VISUAL ARTIST MICKALENE THOMAS
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Emma Amos
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Margo Humphrey
Alison Saar
Lorna Simpson
Veodis Watkins
Carrie Mae Weems
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“Sharp and persuasive.” —The New York Times Book Review on the original publication of Art on My Mind
In Art on My Mind, “one of the country’s most influential feminist thinkers“(Artforum) offers a tender yet potent suite of writings for a world increasingly concerned with art and identity politics. This collection of bell hooks’s essays, each with art at its center, explores both the obvious and obscure: from ruminations on the fraught representation of Black bodies, to reflections on the creative processes of women artists, to analysis of the use of blood in visual art.
bell hooks has been “instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists” (Artnet), with searing essays complemented by conversations with Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Margo Humphrey, and LaVerne Wells-Bowie. Featuring full-color artwork from giants such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, and Alison Saar, Art on My Mind “examines the way race, sex and class shape who makes art, how it sells and who values it” (The New York Times), while questioning how art can be instrumental for Black liberation. In doing so, hooks urges us to unravel the forces of oppression that colonize our imaginations.
With a new foreword from acclaimed contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas, this thirtiethanniversary edition passes the torch to a new generation of artists, capturing hooks’s simple yet evergreen affirmation: art matters it is a life force in the struggle for freedom. Art on My Mind is essential reading for anyone looking to find lessons on liberation and creativity in the world of color the free world of art.
bell hooks (1952–2021) was the author of over thirty books, including the feminist classic Ain’t I a Woman, the memoir Bone Black, and New York Times bestselling All About Love
Praise for Art on My Mind: “In an art world obsessed with identity politics, Art on My Mind is a long-overdue rescue of the liberating, rather than confining, power of art.”
Paper magazine
"Art on My Mind is at once a grounded and rigorous engagement with existing structures of power and a visceral, dreamy meditation on creative expression, written with clarity, warmth and ease."
The New Statesman
“Sharp and persuasive.”
The New York Times Book Review
“Art on My Mind is a guide to the ways that political meaning and esthetic pleasure may be discovered, bound together, in many works by contemporary artists of color.”
Art in America
“hooks brings a welcome clarity to such issues as received art and the development of a Western canon.”
—San Francisco Examiner
“Passionate and highly personal.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Featured Titles: Food, Culture, and Identity
A
Bite-Sized History of Italy
Gastronomic Tales of the Roman Empire, Resistance, and Republic
Danielle Callegari
June 2, 2026
Hardcover
256 pages
World, all languages
A COMPELLING EXPLORATION INTO THE RICH TAPESTRY OF ITALIAN FOOD HISTORY AND CULTURE,
FROM
THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO TODAY,
BY
THE CO-HOST OF THE TOPRANKED GOLA FOOD AND WINE PODCAST
While Italy has existed as a nation-state only since 1861, a distinctly Italian identity had been simmering for centuries, nourished by a shared culinary culture. From the dormice and garum of the Roman Empire to the heresy of pineapple pizza, A Bite-Sized History of Italy traces this legacy, offering a delicious romp through millennia of culinary tradition and transformation.
Author Danielle Callegari, associate professor at Dartmouth and co-host of the Gola podcast, guides readers on a spirited tour through the kitchens, vineyards, city squares, and coastal ports of the iconic peninsula, offering an intimate portrait of a place so famous for its food it nearly defies interrogation even as it might be said that food is the very reason for its existence.
With boundless energy and a fearless palate, Callegari explores beloved staples pizza, pasta, parmigiano alongside the unsung flavors that shaped Italian identity: legumes, wild herbs, game birds, spices, and the contributions of Jewish and other minority communities. She reveals how Italy’s rise as Europe’s gastronomic heart is rooted in religious customs, class dynamics, and the echoes of empire, as well as how food became a language of both unity and division.
Through stories of what was eaten, and by whom, this latest addition to The New Press’s standout Bite-Sized series, A Bite-Sized History of Italy offers a glimpse of the making of Italy itself a nation defined, defended, and devoured around the table.
Danielle Callegari is an associate professor of Italian at Dartmouth College, writer at large for Wine Enthusiast covering Tuscany and southern Italy, and co-host of the Italian food and beverage podcast Gola. She is the author of Dante’s Gluttons and A Bite-Sized History of Italy (The New Press) and lives between Hanover, New Hampshire; Brooklyn, New York; and Rome, Italy.
Featured Titles: Food, Culture, and Identity
A Bite-Sized History of Japan
Eric Rath
January 2027
Hardcover
320 pages (est.)
World, all languages
From the sushi boom of the 1980s in the United States to the more recent spread of high-end omakase restaurants and inexpensive ramen joints, Japanese cuisine is one of the most influential globally today for the way the foods are prepared and the cultural meanings that are associated with those dishes. In the vein of our successful A Bite-Sized History of France, A Bite-Sized History of Japan uses culinary stories to tell key episodes and eras in Japanese history with the aim of informing the general reader about iconic foods and the story of Japanese civilization. In each of the short, digestible chapters, readers will gain a new appreciation for Japanese history while at the same time learning the background and flavor profiles of a wide range of foods. A Bite-Sized History of Japan will be the first English-language survey of Japanese food culture for the general reader.
Eric Rath is professor of premodern Japanese history at the University of Kansas. His research specialty is traditional Japanese food culture, and his books include Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan; Japan’s Cuisines: Food, Place and Identity; and Oishii: The History of Sushi. He is a member of the editorial collective of Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. His translations of historic recipes have found new life in the Michelin-starred omakase restaurant Shibumi in Los Angeles.
Featured Titles: Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Burned by Billionaires
How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet
Chuck Collins
October 7, 2025
Hardcover
256 pages
World, all languages
A SCATHING EXPOSÉ OF THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF AMERICA’S ULTRA WEALTHY ON OUR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE AS WELL AS A PATH TOWARD A MORE EQUITABLE FUTURE
“The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi.” from Burned by Billionaires
Recently, it has become increasingly evident that extreme concentrations of wealth and power have profound impacts on our politics, but extreme inequality’s influence on our daily lives and our futures has been vastly overlooked.
In Burned by Billionaires, author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, Chuck Collins chronicles how the actions of the top .01% have severe consequences for the rest of us, especially those of marginalized identities. Collins takes down the “myth of meritocracy,” unraveling how the rich rig the game in their favor, resulting in a concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny (but growing) class of billionaires leading to both intense income and political polarization.
In a wholly original argument, Collins charts this economic, social, and ecological destruction and shows how these effects manifest in every facet of our society, including:
• Increasing the tax burden on ordinary working people
• Reducing public funding for schools, roads, and other essential infrastructure
• Shrinking the pool of affordable housing, especially in poor and urban areas
• Accelerating climate change and dictating what ends up on our dinner plate
• Shaping the news we consume and fueling the spread of misinformation
Collins argues that perhaps, worst of all, the concentration of wealth and power is leading to political hijacking, undermining the democratic principle that our votes matter equally. Full of engrossing charts, graphs, political cartoons, and more, this book is an urgent call-to-action and road map to a more equitable society, where everyone has access to the resources that will allow them to thrive and one where it is no longer commonplace to live in a constant state of uncertainty, fear, and anxiety
Burned by Billionaires offers a pointed prescription for taking power back from the billionaire class and achieving the shared prosperity that comes from a healthy and equal society.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he coedits Inequality.org. He is the author of several books, including Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr), and Economic Apartheid in America and Burned by Billionaires (both from The New Press). He lives in Vermont.
Praise for Burned by Billionaires:
"An informed and measured exploration of the myriad harms billionaires impose."
Kirkus Reviews
"At the invitation of billionaire Donald Trump, the richest man in the world was invited to comb through America’s public purse, cutting such programs for those in need as Head Start and Meals on Wheels. In Burned by Billionaires, Chuck Collins asks, what’s wrong with this picture? What are we telling ourselves that makes this seem right? What devastating consequences of it are we ignoring? Clear and punchy, Collins has written a strong spur to action."
Arlie Russell Hochschild, author, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
"An incisive must-read account of how we are all being hurt by those with excessive wealth, Burned by Billionaires also provides hard-won wisdom about what can be done to unrig the system before they wreck our world."
Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
"Collins makes the case that wealth is power and shows how that power is distorting American democracy to the detriment of us all."
—Jeffrey A. Winters, professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our DemocracyFeatured
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Featured Titles: Multigenerational ChineseAmerican Literary Memoir
The City of Jade Trees
Margaret Woo
October 27, 2026 (tent.)
Hardcover
288 pages
World, all languages
The City of Jade Trees is a family memoir that traces four generations across the Pacific, exploring the shifting meaning of home between China and the United States. Each generation’s story unfolds against pivotal moments in Chinese American and U.S. immigration history from the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s to the reforms of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
The narrative begins with Margaret Woo’s great-grandfather, an early “sojourner,” and her grandfather, who arrived at the height of exclusionary laws. It continues with her father, trained as a navigator with the Flying Tigers, and her mother, the privileged daughter of a Green Gang member, who together opened a Chinese restaurant after immigrating to America. Woo herself entered the United States at age seven, during a brief period of liberalized immigration policy, though one still shaped by prejudice and restriction.
Distinctive in its generational scope, The City of Jade Trees reveals how each family member navigated questions of belonging, cultural identity, and adaptation within specific historical contexts. By situating intimate family experiences within broader social and political frameworks, the memoir illuminates how identity is negotiated in the in-between spaces created by migration and diaspora.
For readers of Ava Chin’s Mott Street, Curtis Chin’s Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, and Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land, this work offers both a personal and historical meditation on displacement, resilience, and the search for home.
Margaret Woo, a leading expert on the Anglo-American legal system and the Chinese socialist legal system, teaches Civil Procedure, Administrative Law and Comparative Law. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and is presently an associate of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard University.
Featured Titles: Biodiversity and Sustainable Food Systems
Eating the Amazon
Nicholas Gill
April 2027
Hardcover
336 pages
World, all languages, excluding Spanish and Portuguese
There is perhaps nowhere on earth that has as many gastronomic possibilities as the Amazon rainforest. A vast ecosystem that has already given the world crops such as cacao, vanilla, chilies, cassava, and Brazil nuts, the Amazon also marches toward an unrecoverable tipping point, and time is running out to understand and appreciate the immeasurable potential of the region’s astounding biodiversity and transition it to a standing forest economy.
In Eating the Amazon, award-winning writer Nicholas Gill, who has spent over two decades documenting the region, invites readers on a journey through the Amazon’s breathtaking landscapes from the misty cloud forests along the Andean foothills to the steamy floodplains that flow into the Atlantic. With each chapter centering on a different food, Gill traces the Amazon’s culinary roots through the region’s complex history of exploitation and into the present day, where a movement is emerging for low-carbon, sustainable food systems that empower Indigenous communities and keep the forests standing and the rivers free of pollution.
Nicholas Gill is a James Beard- and André Simon–nominated writer and photographer who has spent the past fifteen years intensely exploring the foodways of Latin America, from remote corners of the Amazon Rainforest to the islands of Patagonia. He is the co-author of Central (2016) and The Latin American Cookbook (2021) with Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez, as well as Slippurinn (2021) with Icelandic chef Gísli Matt. He has appeared on the Netflix series Chef’s Table and was a consulting producer for the series Street Food: Latin America. Additionally, Gill is a co-founder of the award-winning culinary newsletter and podcast New Worlder and is a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times, Saveur, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Fool.
Featured Titles: Gender Studies
Girls, Unlimited How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money
Monique Couvson
October 14, 2025
Hardcover
240 pages
World, all languages
BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE DR. MONIQUE COUVSON MAKES A PERSONAL, COMPELLING CASE FOR WHY WE SHOULD INVEST IN GIRLS’ UNLIMITED POTENTIAL
TIME Magazine celebrates Monique Couvson one of “25 Black leaders working to end the racial equity gap” in its 2025 “The Closers” list
Building on her groundbreaking research that exposed how schools systemically fail Black girls, Dr. Monique Couvson expands her lens in Girls, Unlimited, exploring the many ways our society overlooks the unique experiences and needs of all girls. Interweaving heartwarming and heartwrenching stories from her own life and career with interviews with other high-profile advocates, and insightful anecdotes about the girls she’s connected with around the world, Dr. Couvson offers a wide range of recommendations for everyone from parents to policymakers.
Girls, Unlimited connects the dots, powerfully illustrating a critique of the many ways girls have been historically underinvested in especially as compared to boys, and particularly when decision-makers assume investments made in women will trickle down to girls making the case for the type of societal investment girls deserve and arguing that we all benefit when girls thrive.
Dr. Couvson offers an optimistic, hopeful vision for a future in which girls are supported in every arena and provides readers with a practical road map for how to get there.
Monique Couvson, EdD (formerly Monique W. Morris), president/CEO of G4GC and co–founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, is the author of several books, including Pushout; Black Stats; Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues; and Charisma’s Turn (all from The New Press). Her work has been featured by TIME, NPR, The New York Times, MSNBC, Essence, The Atlantic, TED, The Washington Post, Education Week, and others.
Praise for Monique Couvson:
“Couvson has three decades under her belt as a scholar and criminal-justice advocate dedicated to studying and countering the criminalization of Black girls in schools, and she works with what she calls a ‘participatory worldview.’”
TIME magazine
Praise for Girls, Unlimited:
"A passionate case for supporting girls of color with investments in education, mentorship, mental and emotional wellness and most of all, time. . . . The wealth of insights and anecdotes will appeal to educators, parents, and anyone seeking tools to bring about a better future for young women of color."
Publishers Weekly
“A call to action for lawmakers and citizens alike. . . . Readers will appreciate Couvson’s expertise and passion.”
Library Journal
"Girls, Unlimited is a paean for investing in girls. Dr. Couvson weaves the personal and the political to make the powerful and persuasive case that girls around the world deserve better. Moving from a ‘me ’ to a ‘we ’ frame can help us to inhabit an expansive version of family, in which all girls are our girls."
—Hali
Lee, author of The Big We
"With warmth and expertise, Dr. Couvson calls on those of us who work with girls to double down on our commitments, even as she acknowledges the many serious challenges we face. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls and their futures."
Shaun Robinson, Emmy Award–winning journalist
Featured Titles: Gender Studies
Pushout
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique Couvson
November 2026
Hardcover
336 pages
World, all languages
10th Anniversary Edition, revised with a new introduction
THE “POWERFUL” (MICHELLE ALEXANDER) EXPLORATION OF THE HARSH AND HARMFUL EXPERIENCES CONFRONTING BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS, AND HOW WE CAN INSTEAD ORIENT SCHOOLS TOWARD THEIR FLOURISHING
“A dynamic call to action. . . . Pushout is essential reading for all who believe that Black lives matter.”
Kimberlé
Crenshaw
On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school, she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.
In a work that Lisa Delpit calls “imperative reading,” Monique W. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood, highly judged by teachers, administrators, and the justice system and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Painting “a chilling picture of the plight of black girls and women today” (The Atlantic), Morris exposes a world of confined potential and supports the rising movement to challenge the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.
At a moment when Black girls are the fastest growing population in the juvenile justice system, Pushout is truly a book “for everyone who cares about children” (Washington Post).
Monique Couvson, EdD (formerly Monique W. Morris), president/CEO of G4GC and co–founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, is the author of several books, including Pushout; Black Stats; Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues; and Charisma’s Turn (all from The New Press). Her work has been featured by TIME, NPR, The New York Times, MSNBC, Essence, The Atlantic, TED, The Washington Post, Education Week, and others.
Praise for the first edition of Pushout: "A road map for educators and policymakers who want to address the unique ways in which black girls are placed in the school-to-prison pipeline."
Erica L. Green, The New York Times
"A powerful indictment of the cultural beliefs, policies, and practices that criminalize and dehumanize Black girls in America, coupled with thoughtful analysis and critique of the justice work that must be done at the intersection of race and gender."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
"If you ever doubted that Supremacy Crimes those devoted to maintaining hierarchy are rooted in both sex and race, read Pushout. Monique Morris tells us exactly how schools are crushing the spirit and talent that this country needs."
Gloria Steinem
"This book is imperative reading, not only for educators and those in the justice system but perhaps especially for anyone who loves and sleeps down the hall from a young, developing African American woman."
Lisa Delpit, author of “Multiplication Is for White People” and Other People’s Children
"A dynamic call to action. Black girls’ exposure to being pushed out of school and set on paths to incarceration, physical and economic insecurity, and social marginality is so movingly set forth by Morris that it can no longer be ignored. Pushout is essential reading for all who believe that Black lives matter."
Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-editor of Critical Race Theory and co-author of the reports “Say Her Name” and “Black Girls Matter”
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The Know-It-Alls
The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Noam Cohen
March 17, 2026
Paperback
288 pages
World, all languages
FROM THE FORMER NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY REPORTER, “AN ENLIGHTENING BREAKDOWN OF HOW SILICON VALLEY BILLIONAIRES HAVE SHIFTED THE POPULAR DISCOURSE IN THEIR FAVOR” (KIRKUS) WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION AND FULLY UPDATED CHAPTERS
An “important” book on the “pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.” The New York Times
Hailed as “a valuable addition” and a “Top Tech Book” by Wired.com, The Know-It-Alls offers a prescient chronicle of the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force. Showcasing this new class of super geeks, former New York Times technology reporter Noam Cohen sketches “finely researched portraits” (Nature) of the smart guys, including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg, who fell in love with a radically individualistic, anti-government ideal and then mainstreamed it.
Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, published one year after DOGE came to town, Cohen shows how the know-it-alls came to Washington, providing a richly documented account of how their influence has metastasized, their wealth has exploded, and their technologies have frayed America’s social and political fabric. The know-it-alls claim that they support Trump because the Democrats abandoned them; Cohen reveals that Trump gave them the political opening they’d been waiting for, all along.
From the decisive influence of the pandemic, to the emergence of Elon Musk as a national political force, and the appearance of new characters and technologies, Cohen’s “unabashed critique” (Library Journal) is the essential guide to the real power players on today’s political scene.
Noam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for The New York Times, where he wrote the “Link by Link” column, beginning in 2007. He lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for the first edition of The Know-It-Alls: An “important” book on the “pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics.”
The New York Times
“A valuable addition to the growing body of literature that’s trying to explain how a culture of under-socialized wunderkind CEOs drove tech’s future into a ditch.”
Backchannel (WIRED.com)
“An unabashed critique of the values of Silicon Valley start-ups that increasingly control our lives online.”
Library Journal
“The Know-It-Alls examines highly influential figures such as the often-neglected computer pioneers John McCarthy and Frederick Terman, who helped to transform Stanford, California, and its valley into a digital powerhouse McCarthy as the father of artificial intelligence, Terman as a catalyst for local entrepreneurialism. These finely researched portraits are a joy.”
Nature Magazine
“[Cohen] shows how the cult of personality for tech entrepreneurs developed out of a ‘combination of a hacker’s arrogance and an entrepreneur’s greed’ and . . . helps chip away at the power these men (another crucial quality) have carved out for themselves. . . . An enlightening breakdown of how Silicon Valley billionaires have shifted popular discourse in their favor.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Individualism is a big part of what makes America great until it becomes a euphemism for selfishness and arrogance among lucky winners who prefer to believe that luck and other people had nothing to do with their success. The Know-It-Alls is a terrific case study of some of the unreckoned costs of the digital revolution, and how one piece of the American idea threatens to overwhelm the others.”
Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire and host of NPR's Studio 360
“Why is the Internet the way it is? How has commerce come to dominate the scramble for clicks and eyeballs? What kind of people, essentially all of them young men brainy, ambitious, focused, very young young men created cyberspace? Via the careers of a dozen of them, Noam Cohen tells the story in this entertaining, refreshingly unworshipful survey.”
Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Politics: Observations & Arguments and ¡Obamanos!
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Featured Titles: Environmental Conservation & Protection
The Problem with Plastic How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late
Judith Enck, Adam Mahoney, and Beyond Plastics
December 2, 2025
Hardcover
240 pages
World, all languages
A POWERFUL LOOK AT PLASTIC’S IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK BY PUTTING PEOPLE AND THE PLANET
OVER PLASTICS
“Plastic pollution has reached crisis proportions, and false solutions abound. But as The Problem with Plastic shows, there are real solutions out there. And, fortunately, there are people like Judith Enck working to enact them.” Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction
Plastic is everywhere wrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it can seem impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace.
The Problem with Plastic critically examines the paradox of this material, first celebrated for its innovations and now recognized for its devastating environmental and public health impacts. With clarity and urgency, the book reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, a warming planet, and overwhelming waste, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities who bear the brunt of petrochemical pollution.
Revealing the alarming extent of microplastics infiltrating both the natural world and the human body, this compelling narrative challenges the illusion that recycling alone will save us. It unpacks the mechanisms of environmental racism and the deceptive greenwashing strategies used by the plastics industry to maintain the status quo.
More than a critique, The Problem with Plastic emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy. It higlights powerful stories of frontline resistance in places like Louisiana, Texas, and Appalachia, and equips readers with practical tools including a “Household Waste Audit” to track and reduce plastic consumption, as well as model policy guides for driving legislative change.
Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately empowering, The Problem with Plastic reminds us: plastic is a problem but together, we can be the solution.
Judith Enck is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College, whose goal is eliminating plastic pollution everywhere. In 2009, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and served as deputy secretary for the environment in the New York
Governor’s Office. She is currently a professor at Bennington College, where she teaches classes on plastic pollution. She lives in upstate New York.
Adam Mahoney is a climate and environment reporter who has reported from more than a dozen U.S. states and Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, and Vietnam for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times and The Guardian. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project based at Bennington College that uses education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing to reduce the production and use of plastic. Visit www.beyondplastics.org.
Praise for The Problem with Plastic:
“A vivid, enraging cri de coeur against everywhere contamination and the forces that have done the most prolific polluting.”
David Wallace Wells, The New York Times
“This is not a story of each individual’s use of plastic it’s a story of intentional design. This salient book exposes the environmental racism baked into the plastic crisis, demanding that we name names, follow the money, and change the system to prevent further harm to people and our planet.”
Dr. Robert D. Bullard, distinguished professor, Texas Southern University and “Father of Environmental Justice”
“I don’t think anyone on planet Earth knows more about the plastics problem than Judith Enck including, most crucially, what to do about it. This is a handbook for people looking to make a difference!”
Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun
“The Problem with Plastic is an authoritative critique of the crisis at hand, a takedown of false solutions, and an urgent call to elevate what will actually work to stop this environmental and public health catastrophe.”
Matt Simon, author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
“Plastic is in our refrigerators, in our clothes, even in our lungs. As The Problem with Plastic shows, that’s not an accident: We’re here because of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries. The road to fixing that problem will necessarily be long and winding, but as Judith Enck and Adam Mahoney remind us, it is possible to traverse it.”
Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter at The Guardian
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Sexual Politics of Capitalism A Global History
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale Fall 2026
Hardcover
320 pages
World, all languages
A VAST AND FASCINATING CHRONICLE OF HOW GENDER AND SEXUALITY HAVE BEEN USED TO DIVIDE PEOPLE OVER THE LAST FIFTY YEARS
“New movements are alive and moving in the world. Human beings in struggle are creating new feminisms, changing sexualities, and defying genocide. Hope stalks the heart. We have written this book for these new movements.” from the introduction
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism offers a groundbreaking examination of how the global elite has used gender, sexuality, and violence to maintain control. Anthropologist Nancy Lindisfarne and writer Jonathan Neale trace the devastating effects of these tactics, showing how issues of gender and sexuality have been weaponized, especially since the 1980s, to make inequality appear inevitable, keeping the powerful in power and the marginalized fighting for survival. Spanning the globe, Lindisfarne and Neale explore the lived experiences of those on the front lines of this struggle. From mass incarceration in the United States to the resilience of queer communities in China, from Black women’s battles for AIDS medication in South Africa to the fight against toxic masculinity in world leaders like Putin, Modi, Trump, and Netanyahu, this book provides a sweeping yet deeply personal account of resistance. The authors draw connections between diverse movements union women in Nicaragua, farmers’ widows in India, and bar workers in Vietnam showing how global forces of capitalism exploit gender and sexuality to maintain power. At the same time, The Sexual Politics of Capitalism shines a light on the ongoing revolts against sexual harassment, rape, and reproductive injustice, as well as the fight for trans rights in the United States.
With meticulous research and a passionate call for change, The Sexual Politics of Capitalism is more than a history it is a manifesto for liberation. The authors invite readers to feel the grief and rage sparked by decades of oppression but also the solidarity and hope inspired by the global movements rising up in response. This radical work challenges us to confront the intimate and structural forces shaping our world and to join the fight for a more just and equitable future.
Nancy Lindisfarne is an anthropologist who previously studied and taught at SOAS University of London. The co-editor (with Richard Tapper) of Afghan Village Voices, she lives in Oxford, England.
Jonathan Neale is an historian and professional writer. The author of Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs, he lives in Oxford, England. Activism and Social Justice
Activism and Social Justice
Beasts of Burden
Animal and Disability Liberation
Sunaura Taylor
July 21, 2026
Paperback
288 pages
World, all languages
A BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN INQUIRY INTO THE INTERTWINED STRUGGLES FOR ANIMAL AND DISABILITY JUSTICE CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE
HUMAN
“Finally, finally someone has come along to undo all the damage Peter Singer has done . . . a brave and brilliant book.” Michael Bérubé, author of Life as We Know It and The Secret Life of Stories
In this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and scholar Sunaura Taylor, “Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi” (The New Yorker), explores the profound connections between animal liberation and disability justice. With keen insight and lyrical prose, Beasts of Burden asks us to reconsider long-held assumptions about autonomy, dependence, and what defines a life worth valuing.
Blending memoir, philosophy, and cultural critique, Taylor draws on her lived experience as a disabled person and lifelong animal advocate to examine how society marginalizes both disabled people and nonhuman animals often through the same systems of power and exclusion. From the ethics of caregiving to the realities of factory farming, she invites readers to “crip” our understanding of animal ethics, opening the door to new forms of empathy and solidarity across difference.
As Rebecca Solnit has written, “Sunaura Taylor will shake up your categories, turn your world inside out, and tell you a lot of fascinating and important things you didn’t know yet, about your own body and the bodies of others, human and nonhuman, under an inhumane regime.”
Sunaura Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books Ecofeminism, Defiant Daughters, Occupy!, Stay Solid, and Infinite City. Taylor and Judith Butler’s conversation is featured in the film Examined Life and the book of the same name, published by The New Press.
Praise for Beasts of Burden: "Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi."
The New Yorker
"Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both as an intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals and an invitation to reimagine ourselves. Her thoroughly original, brilliant narrative transformed my imagination."
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
"I am not the same animal I was before I read this book."
Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip
"Finally, finally someone has come along to undo all the damage Peter Singer has done. Beasts of Burden is a brave and brilliant book."
Michael Bérubé, author of Life as We Know It and The Secret Life of Stories
"Beasts of Burden is a game-changer."
Marc Bekoff, author of Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals’ Agenda
"This is a profound and wondrous book. Sunaura Taylor challenges us to rethink what is normal, what is natural, how to measure the value of a life and how to imagine a world in which both human and nonhuman animals, resplendent in their differences and multiplicity, might flourish."
Claire Jean Kim, author of Dangerous Crossings
"A powerful blend of sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, personal stories and sharp, passionate writing."
Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy and Ethics and Animals
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Activism and Social Justice
Organizing America
Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice
Erik Loomis
August 12, 2025
Hardcover
272 pages
World, all languages
A SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZERS ON UNITED STATES HISTORY
We are living through a time when real social change seems to be in the rearview mirror. But this rousing new book offers a beacon of hope: the stories of organizers who have shown America the way forward in the darkest of times.
Author of the celebrated A History of America in Ten Strikes (a Kirkus Reviews best book of 2018), Erik Loomis uncovers a rich and revealing history of social change activism with immediate relevance to our present. In twenty short biographies, Organizing America tells the story of America through its most important organizers. A chronological story with a vast sweep, Organizing America considers a cross section of social justice activists across time, race, gender, and movement, examining lives as varied as Benjamin Lay, Ida B. Wells, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bob Moses, Yuri Kochiyama, Daniel Berrigan, Dolores Huerta, Barbara Gittings, and many more.
With an introduction that explains what organizing is and how collective action works and how we should think about the power of organizing in 2025 and beyond Loomis sets a tone that is both practical and historical, providing context and inspiration for anyone seeking to step into the work of changing America for the better.
Erik Loomis is an associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns, and Money on labor and environmental issues past and present. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, and The New Republic. The author of Out of Sight and A History of America in Ten Strikes (both from The New Press) as well as Empire of Timber, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Praise for Organizing America:
"In this inspiring account 20 activists from the 17th century to today who each convey a specific lesson for political organizing. . . . Readers will be galvanized themselves."
Publishers Weekly
"Loomis has pulled together a compendium of short but fascinating and informative biographies of organizers throughout American history who fought for justice."
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Challenging Cases
Judges Tell the Stories of High-Profile and Other
Tough Cases
Russell Canan, Gregory E. Mize, Frederick H. Weisberg
July 14, 2026
Hardcover
288 pages
World, all languages
FOLLOWING ON THE SUCCESS OF TOUGH CASES, THIS COMPANION VOLUME COLLECTS JUDGES’ FIRSTHAND STORIES OF DECIDING CASES WHEN THE WORLD IS WATCHING
Most cases that judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. In Challenging Cases, some of the country’s leading jurists talk about the most difficult cases they’ve handled ones where the eyes of the world were upon them.
Whether the defendant was a beloved major league baseball player, a movie star, or a wellknown sex-offender, or whether the topic addressed an especially contentious aspect of the culture wars, these cases played out before millions of on-lookers, adding a whole new dimension to what is already a Solomonic responsibility.
In their previous book, Tough Cases, called “a genuine revelation” by Justin Driver in The Washington Post, Judges Canan, Mize, and Weisberg made us privy to the thought processes of judges making some of their hardest legal decisions. In Challenging Cases, over a dozen judges from courts in DC, Texas, Seattle, Michigan, Maine, Buffalo, Virginia, and more speak to the added challenge of trials involving high-profile defendants. Cases include:
• the perjury trial of Roger Clemens
• the sentencing of January 6th rioters
• the case of Dr. Larry Nassar, accused of the sexual abuse of hundreds of female athletes
• the Kosovo international war crimes trial
• the Johnny Depp trial
Challenging Cases is for every actual and armchair legal beagle in the country.
Russell F. Canan is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. He lives in Washington, DC. Gregory E. Mize is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and is a judicial fellow at the National Center for State Courts and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in Washington, DC. Frederick H. Weisberg is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and teaches annually in the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington, DC.
Copaganda How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Alec Karakatsanis
April 15, 2025
Hardcover
432 pages
World, all languages
FROM A PRIZEWINNING CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER COMES A POWERFUL WARNING ABOUT HOW THE MEDIA MANIPULATES PUBLIC PERCEPTION, FUELING FEAR AND INEQUALITY, WHILE DISTRACTING US FROM WHAT TRULY MATTERS
“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored.” James Forman Jr.
In this groundbreaking expose, essential for understanding the rising authoritarian mindset, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “copaganda.” He defines copaganda as a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. Every day, mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe and contributes to a culture fearful of poor people, strangers, immigrants, unhoused people, and people of color. The result is more and more authoritarian state repression, more inequality, and huge profits for the massive public and private punishment bureaucracy.
For readers of Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, Copaganda documents how modern news coverage fuels insecurity against these groups and shifts our focus away from the policies that would help us improve people’s lives things like affordable housing, adequate healthcare, early childhood education, and climate-friendly city planning.
These false narratives in turn fuel surveillance, punishment, inequality, injustice, and mass incarceration. Copaganda is often hidden in plain sight, such as:
• When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution
• When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a shortage of prison guards rather than too many people in prison
• When your newspaper quotes an expert saying that more money for police and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary
Recognized by Teen Vogue as “one of the most prominent voices” on the criminal legal system, Karakatsanis brings his sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous storytelling to drastically alter the way we consume information, while offering a hopeful path forward. One towards a healed humanity and media system with a vested interest in public
safety and equality.
Alec Karakatsanis founded the Civil Rights Corps, an organization that challenges systemic injustices in the U.S. legal system. In the last decade, the organization’s work has freed hundreds of thousands of people from illegal confinement in jail cells, reunited hundreds of thousands of families, returned tens of millions of dollars to marginalized communities, and advanced inspiring alternatives to punishment as a means of preventing and addressing social harm. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice for designing and litigating landmark constitutional challenges to cash bail and modern debtors’ prison practices across the United States. He lives in Washington, DC.
Praise for Copaganda:
"An instructive, often enraging look at how elite publications mounted a sustained defense of the status quo after the police murder of George Floyd touched off the largest political mass movement in U.S. history."
—The New Republic
"Karakatsanis provides a primer on how to read and assess news stories and opinion pieces."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Karakatsanis’s close readings of news articles from major outlets show that journalists habitually regurgitate pro-police narratives many of which revolve around how more funding for law enforcement is needed to bring down crime rates and omit the perspectives of nonpolice experts and studies showing that law enforcement has no correlation with crime rates. . . . Readers will be aghast."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Alec Karakatsanis exposes our criminal injustice system for what it is: a bureaucracy of punishment, propped up by a biased media machine that feeds mass incarceration. After Copaganda, you’ll never read the news the same way again."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
"Alec Karakatsanis is a gifted civil rights lawyer and a fearless guide to the urgent project of calling out the many failures of modern coverage of crime and justice. Only by really understanding those failures why, for instance, news outlets tend to ignore ubiquitous crimes like wage theft but spill endless ink on certain street crimes can we hope to heal our communities."
Sarah Stillman, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and staff writer, The New Yorker
"Karakatsanis cuts to the heart of the rancid politics of crime, and the ways in which journalists and academics reproduce inequality and immiseration by legitimating America’s massive punishment bureaucracy. Copaganda is a masterful analysis, a call to action, and a blueprint for change."
Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing
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Courageous Judges
Russell Canan, Marco Guzman
January 1, 2027
Hardcover
256 pages
WORLD, all languages
Courageous Judges examines the role of judicial courage in shaping law and society. Through case studies drawn from different historical periods and countries, the book traces how judges have responded when legal obligation, conscience, and political pressure collided.
The volume recounts, among others, Judge Lothar Kreyssig’s defiance of Nazi decrees, Judge J. Skelly Wright’s rulings desegregating New Orleans schools amid violent opposition, and the electoral defeats of Justices Penny White and Marsha Ternus following controversial decisions. It also considers Judge Carlton Reeves’s sentencing in a Mississippi hate crime case, Judge Esther Salas’s advocacy for judicial safety following personal tragedy, and the assassinations of Italian magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino for their prosecutions of the Mafia.
Courageous Judges highlights the challenges and responsibilities of judicial independence in the face of political, social, and personal risk.
Russell F. Canan is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. He lives in Washington, DC. Gregory E. Mize is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and is a judicial fellow at the National Center for State Courts and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in Washington, DC. Frederick H. Weisberg is currently a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and teaches annually in the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington, DC.
Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
Shine
Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions
Asafe Ghalib
December 9, 2025
Paperback
137 pages
World, all languages
A DEEPLY PERSONAL WORK OF PHOTOJOURNALISM FROM ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST EXCITING YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS WORKING TODAY
“The power and intensity of Asafe’s work are recognizable from the first instance of setting eyes on his images. The activism that underpins it makes for an even more impactful aesthetic.”
—Izabela Radwanska Zhang, editorial director of British Journal of Photography
For many queer people, exile begins at home. The search for safety and freedom to express themselves drives millions of LGBTQIA+ people across borders. Their stories are full of contrasts between isolation and community, freedom and nostalgia.
In their stunning compositions, photographer Asafe Ghalib explores the identities of members of the LGBTQIA+ immigrant community in Britain with striking beauty and poise. Brought up in a religious family, Ghalib draws from their own experience, leaving Brazil behind, to depict the rich lives of their subjects who live at the intersections of multiple cultures. Their work, which evokes black-and-white newspaper photographs and classic portraiture that has been present since the dawn of photography, immortalizes the lives of a community that has been misrepresented for decades.
The latest in a groundbreaking series of photobooks that highlight queer lives and communities around the world, Shine invites the viewer to enter the world of Britain’s many queer communities, and in doing so, to challenge common misconceptions and prejudices about LGBTQIA+ people in Britain. An act of both confrontation and pride, this book is also an exploration of immigration as a human right, and above all, a celebration of the triumphs of a defiant community.
Shine was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).
Asafe Ghalib (they/them) is an artist from Brazil and has been based in London since 2013. They work primarily with the medium of photography in collaboration with the LGBTQIA+ community. Their work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue Australia, Dazed, Perfect Magazine, Gay Times, and a range of other venues.
Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
Disrupted City
Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
Manan Ahmed Asif
October 22, 2024
Hardcover
400 pages
World, all languages
Longlisted, 2025 Cundill History Prize
A STUNNING HISTORY OF PAKISTAN’S CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, FROM ONE OF THE PREEMINENT SCHOLARS OF SOUTH ASIA
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947 to gain freedom from Britain’s colonial hold and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was formed, the city’s large Hindu and Sikh populations were pushed toward India, and an even larger Muslim refugee population settled in the city. This was just the latest in a long history of the city’s making and unmaking.
Over the centuries, the city has kept a firm grip on the imagination of travelers, poets, writers, and artists. More recently, it has been journalists who have been drawn to the city as a focal point for a nation that continues to grab international headlines. For this book, acclaimed historian Manan Ahmed Asif brings to life a diverse and vibrant world by walking the city again and again over the course of many years. Along the way he joins Sufi study circles and architects doing restoration in the medieval parts of Lahore and speaks with a broad range of storytellers and historians. To this Asif juxtaposes deep analysis of the city’s centuries-old literary culture, noting how this reverberates among the people of Lahore today.
To understand modern Pakistan requires understanding its cultural capital, and Disrupted City uses Lahore’s cosmopolitan past and its fractured present to provide a critical lens to challenge the grand narratives of the Pakistani nation-state and its national project of writing history.
Manan Ahmed Asif is associate professor of history at Columbia University. The author of A Book of Conquest and The Loss of Hindustan and founder of the Chapati Mystery blog, he lives in New York City.
Praise for Disrupted City: "An engaging book . . . evoking a rich cast of characters who have called Lahore home for more than a millennium."
—The New Yorker
"A poignant history and personal memoir of a constantly evolving city."
Kirkus Reviews
"In this marvelous blend of scholarship and personal memoir, Manan Ahmed Asif paints a vivid portrait of a thousand-year-old city. This beautifully written book is an apt tribute to a great literary metropolis."
Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes and Sea of Poppies
"Lahore is a city of many selves, and Manan Ahmed Asif guides readers among them with unique insight and erudition. He parses Lahore’s layered literary and cultural history in rich, evocative (yet determinedly un-nostalgic) terms, while keeping squarely in view the pressures of imperial and state power, dislocation, and erasure. Lyrical and formally innovative, Disrupted City expands the possibilities of what an urban history can be."
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and author of The Dawn Watch
"A learned and lyrical elegy or shahr ashob for the great city of Lahore: a book that is both nostalgic and scholarly, nuanced and cosmopolitan yet deeply rooted, sharpened by a sense of belonging, and at once weighed down and informed by the anchor of memory and attachment. This is a unique and sophisticated work, the Ravi viewed through the rearview mirror of the Hudson, written by one of the most outstanding historian-flaneurs of our time."
William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals and The Anarchy
The Great White Hoax Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
Philip Kadish
June 24, 2025
Hardcover
368 pages
World, all languages
A PROVOCATIVE, SWEEPING HISTORY OF THE MANY PUBLIC DECEPTION TACTICS THAT HAVE FUELED DISCRIMINATION AND WHITE SUPREMACY FOR CENTURIES EXPOSES THE TRUE MEANING OF “FAKE NEWS” AND THE WAYS IN WHICH HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
“Anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and public lies in America will want to read this book.” David S. Reynolds, Bancroft Prize–winning cultural historian and author of John Brown, Abolitionist and Walt Whitman’s America
Today’s fake news, outright political lies, deceptive media, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts makes many of us wonder, “when did it get this bad?” Well, the truth, as Philip Kadish unveils, is that this is simply part of a harmful, continuous cycle that started decades even centuries ago. In The Great White Hoax, he reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a 6/2/2025return to form, revealing a long history of forgeries, bogus science, and rigged data that keeps American racism alive and has upheld white supremacist ideals throughout modern history.
A masterpiece of historical and literary sleuthing, this tour-de-force takes us across pivotal examples of these hoaxes throughout the 1830s through the mid-twentieth century, including:
• How in the antebellum era, slavery’s defenders used bogus science to prove the inferiority of African American people
• The phony autobiography of Maria Monk known as “The Awful Disclosures” that perpetuated anti-Catholic rhetoric in the 1830s
• Thomas Dixon’s fake claims of Black violence and crime through his work in support of racial segregation
• Henry Ford’s written and verbal false accusations that Jews were responsible for society’s problems and shortcomings and the manipulation tactics that spread vast antisemitism in the early twentieth century
These instances of deceptive historical evidence, misleading cinematic and literary narratives, and lies about “inferiority” and “conspiracy” succeeded in justifying racist, antisemitic, and antiimmigrant laws, policies, and institutions, as well as influencing presidential elections, curriculum, and scientific theories and justifying discriminatory law enforcement policies.
The Great White Hoax is necessary to understand how the political, media, and cultural landscape shapes our society and culture as a whole and our collective future. It proves that race is just as much a social construct as it is a biological one.
Philip Kadish is a professor of American Studies at Pace University in New York City. His opeds connecting contemporary racial issues to their roots in nineteenth-century American culture have appeared on CNN.com and NBC.com. He lives in New York City.
Praise for The Great White Hoax:
"Kadish sheds a necessary light on some largely forgotten, tragic periods of American history. . . . [The Great White Hoax] provides the valuable lesson that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
Booklist
"Revelatory and disturbing."
—Foreword Reviews
"Provocative and eye-opening, The Great White Hoax gives us a look at the people and events in our nation’s history we so often downplay."
BookPage (starred review)
"The catalogue of racist hoaxes and misinformation in Kadish’s book provides a valuable template for modern readers to critically examine today’s hyper-partisan news media. Thoughtful and timely."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"This meticulous and captivating account makes a disturbing case that America is easily swayed by racist cons."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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King of the North
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Jeanne Theoharis
March 25, 2025
Hardcover
400 pages
World, all languages
Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books
Shortlisted, 2025 Museum of African American History
Stone Book Award
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR COMES A RADICAL REFRAMING OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THAT CHALLENGES OUR ASSUMPTIONS ON AMERICA’S RACIAL HISTORY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
“Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and sensitive, scholarly insight that Dr. King not only was keenly aware of the history of antiblack racism in the North, but battled it from the very beginning of his career.” Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South. But in this myth-shattering book, award-winning and New York Times bestselling historian Jeanne Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago outside Dixie was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. King of the North follows King as he crisscrosses the country from the Northeast to the West Coast, challenging school segregation, police brutality, housing segregation, and job discrimination. For these efforts, he was relentlessly attacked by white liberals, the media, and the federal government.
In this bold retelling, King emerges as someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who despite his flaws depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.
The first book to ever uncover the depths of Coretta Scott King’s involvement in the movement, her husband’s pursuits, and the shaping of modern history, King of the North sheds brilliant new light on their marriage and partnership and her paramount impact on his story and successes.
Theoharis’s new book speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today. Just as she restored Rosa Parks’s central place in modern American history, so Theoharis radically expands
our understanding of King’s life and work a vision of justice unfulfilled in the present.
Jeanne Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography and the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. Her book has been adapted into a documentary of the same name. Her book A More Beautiful and Terrible History won the 2018 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize in Nonfiction and was named one of the best Black history books of 2018 by Black Perspectives. She lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for King of the North:
"Theoharis depicts a complex, radical King whose fight against Northern racism alternately inspires and infuriates. . . . A powerful must-read that sheds new light on King and the Civil Rights Movement."
—Kirkus (starred review)
"An exemplary history that forces readers to reassess their assumptions about America’s racial reckoning."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"King of the North is a revelation a much-needed book that shifts and enhances our appreciation of MLK's radical vision."
—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life
"Just when you thought you knew everything about MLK, Jeanne Theoharis comes along and proves you wrong. Within these gripping pages we meet a public King who is well aware of Northern racism and is concerned with addressing it throughout his public ministry."
Lerone A. Martin, Martin Luther King Jr., Centennial Professor and Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
"Theoharis delivers another revelatory, meticulously documented account that revises our fundamental assumptions about American history, with critical implications for our future. This indispensable book is a vital resource for all who seek to ‘make real the promise of democracy.’"
Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study
"A groundbreaking history. With deep research and brilliant insight Jeanne Theoharis illuminates new parts of Martin Luther King Jr.’s revolutionary legacy that speaks to our disturbing present. A must-read."
—Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
"A distinctive and urgently needed account of an often-under-appreciated side of Dr. Martin Luther King. Theoharis reveals new depth and complexity to the quieter dimensions of his thought in the shaping of a national and global synergy of Black political power."
Patricia J. Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights
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The Road Was Full of Thorns
Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War
Tom Zoellner
September 30, 2025
Hardcover
320 pages
World, all languages
A RADICAL RETELLING OF THE DRAMA OF EMANCIPATION, FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLE AWARD
“Zoellner is a beautiful writer, a superb reporter, and a deep thinker.” The New York Times Book Review on The National Road
In the opening days of the Civil War, three enslaved men approached the gates of Fort Monroe, a U.S. military installation in Virginia. In a snap decision, the fort’s commander confiscated them as contraband of war and declared them free men.
From then on, wherever the U.S. Army traveled, torrents of runaways rushed to secure their own freedom, a mass movement of 800,000 people a fifth of the enslaved population of the South that set the institution of slavery on a path to destruction.
In an engrossing work of narrative history, critically acclaimed historian Tom Zoellner introduces an unforgettable cast of characters whose stories will transform our popular understanding of how slavery ended. The Road Was Full of Thorns shows what emancipation looked and felt like for the people who made the desperate flight across dangerous territory: the taste of mud in the mouth, the terror of the slave patrols, and the fateful crossing into Union lines. Zoeller also reveals how the least powerful Americans changed the politics of war forcing President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and opening the door to universal Black citizenship.
For readers of The 1619 Project and anyone interested in the Civil War The Road Was Full of Thorns is destined to reshape how we think about the story of American freedom.
Tom Zoellner is the author of nine nonfiction books, including Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction book of 2020. He works as a professor at Chapman University and as an editor-at-large for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for The Road Was Full of Thorns:
“A capacious reimagining of the spirit that animated the Civil War.”
Publishers Weekly
“Tom Zoellner vividly recounts the dramatic experience of men and women who seized freedom during the Civil War. Their resourceful courage overcame prejudice, abuse, and violence to help Union forces win a hard-fought war.”
Alan Taylor, author of American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
“This powerful and inspiring book reveals the pivotal role contraband camps played in the dismantling of slavery. Through gripping narratives, it highlights the bravery and determination of African Americans who took bold steps toward freedom and self-governance bringing the nation closer to its founding ideals.”
Marjoleine Kars, author of Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom on the Wild Coast, winner of the 2021 Cundhill History Prize and cowinner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize
“A vital, illuminating, and beautifully written book that affirms that Black people freed themselves. While American public memory often valorizes Abraham Lincoln or other political leaders in the fight for emancipation, Tom Zoellner places African Americans at the center of the narrative to show how they were the architects of their own destiny.”
Keisha N. Blain, co-editor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls
“With style, urgency, and clarity, Tom Zoellner tells the story of the flight of enslaved people to U.S. lines in the Civil War’s early days . . . a compelling and beautiful book covering an undertold and necessary part of the country’s past and the ways it impacts the present.”
Calvin Schermerhorn, author of Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery
Sacred War
Inside the Japanese Experience, 1937–1945
Theodore F. Cook and Haruko Taya Cook
September 15, 2026
Hardcover
576 pages
World, all languages
THE FIRST EFFORT TO RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC WAR EXCLUSIVELY FROM INTERNAL JAPANESE SOURCES, FROM THE RENOWNED HISTORIANS
A magisterial work of political, social, and military history, Sacred War sets a new standard for understanding the events that forever transformed America, Japan, and the world.
Celebrated historians Theodore F. and Haruko Taya Cook, whose oral history of the Pacific War was called “one of the essential books about World War II” (Philadelphia Inquirer), now offer a shattering new history of Japan’s long war in the Pacific, told exclusively from the perspective of the Japanese. Sacred War draws on a rich trove of documents, much of it first-person and almost all of it previously inaccessible to Western scholars. Based on painstaking research, here is World War II through the eyes of the Japanese themselves: ordinary people on the home front, soldiers on the front lines, and the military and political leadership who drove Japan to near annihilation by 1945.
Sacred War reveals both the internal logic of an authoritarian society bent on victory at all costs including, in the final twelve months of the war, over one million civilian deaths as well as heartrending accounts of the unfolding conflict, from the disease-ridden beaches on Guadalcanal to the burnt-out streets of Hiroshima, following the nuclear attacks by the United States that brought the war to its devastating end.
Theodore F. Cook is a professor emeritus of history and former director of the Asian studies program at William Paterson University. The co-author with Haruko Taya Cook of Japan at War (The New Press), he lives in New York City.
The late Haruko Taya Cook was a professor emerita in history at Marymount College of Fordham University and the co-author (with Theodore F. Cook) of Japan at War (The New Press).
The Unfinished Business of 1776 Why the American Revolution Never Ended Thomas Richards Jr. February 3, 2026
Hardcover
352 pages
World, all languages
A CLARION CALL FOR TAKING BACK THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM THE FAR RIGHT, PUBLISHED FOR THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
“Academic historians who write about the Founding Fathers focus on their many imperfections, while authors aiming at the mass market seldom stray from the Founders’ lofty ideals. Thomas Richards thinks readers can handle both.” Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation’s founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards Jr. invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans.
A riveting work of narrative history, The Unfinished Business of 1776 shows that the Revolutionary struggle did not end in 1787 when the Constitution was ratified: Across nine dramatic chapters, Richards introduces readers to the vividly drawn characters who kept the Revolution alive for the next century and beyond, including the women’s rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray, the enslaved rebel Gabriel, the economic reformer Solomon Sharp, and the religious visionary Joseph Smith each pushing for freedoms that extended well beyond the traditional narrative of the Revolution, and each revealing how the unfinished work of 1776 fueled demands for economic, social, and legal equality that lasted well beyond the Revolution itself.
A myth-busting book about the history we think we know, The Unfinished Business of 1776 is the perfect antidote to jingoistic celebrations of America offering an inclusive vision of our common past.
Thomas Richards Jr. teaches history at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and holds a PhD in History from Temple University. The author of Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States, he lives in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania, where George Washington once camped.
Labor and Union Movements
Labor’s Partisans
Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today
Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti
February 4, 2025
Hardcover
368 pages
World, all languages
THE TOP WRITERS ON LABOR PROVIDE VITAL HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE CURRENT UPSURGE IN UNION ORGANIZING
In 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with onethird of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union and much higher percentages in the nation’s key industries. That same year, a group of socialists, many of them with close ties to labor, founded a small magazine called Dissent.
Over the next seventy years, Dissent would become the publishing home for the most important progressive voices on American unions writers who pushed the labor movement towards a more democratic, inclusive, and expansive vision. Today, at a time of both resurgent union organizing and socialist politics, the need for this rich tradition of ideas is as pressing as ever.
With over twenty-five contributions by some of the nation’s most influential progressive voices, Labor’s Partisans brings to life a history of labor that is of immediate relevance to our own times. Introduced and edited by leading labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti, this essential volume reveals the powerful currents and debates running through the labor movement, from the 1950s to today.
Combining stunning writing, political passion, and deep historical perspective, Labor’s Partisans will be a source of ideas and inspiration for anyone concerned with a more just future for working people.
Authors Included:
Daniel Bell
H.W. Benson
Eileen Boris
David Brody
Thomas R. Brooks
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Melvyn Dubofsky
Liza Featherstone
Steve Fraser
Michael Harrington
Paul Jacobs
E. Tammy Kim
Jennifer Klein
Gabriel Kolko
William Kornblum
Gordon Lafer
Sid Lens
Jack Metzgar
Ruth Milkman
Carl Shier
Harvey Swados
John Sweeney
Dan Wakefield
Nelson Lichtenstein is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. He is the author of many books, including Walter Reuther, Labor’s War at Home, and State of the Union, as well as Wal-Mart (The New Press). He lives in Santa Barbara.
Samir Sonti is an organizer and assistant professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. He lives in New York.
Praise for Labor's Partisans:
"Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection. . . . The result is an impressive retrospective with a forward-looking feel."
Publishers Weekly
"Labor’s Partisans explores the major issues that union organizers have faced, from the Cold War to the current environmental crisis. . . . An honest tribute to dissenting voices, and a plea for a better world for everyone ‘not just the rich or white.’"
Kirkus Reviews
"Knowing our history is important and so too is understanding how people make sense of their present moment. Labor’s Partisans, covering such an important period in working-class struggle, showcases how analysis and interpretation are shaped by the moments in which the writers live. They help root us in our history as we chart a bolder path forward."
Gwen Mills, International Union President of UNITE HERE
"Labor’s Partisans provides a keen look at the labor movement and class relations since World War II though the eyes of some of the country’s shrewdest intellectuals. Union supporters all, they nonetheless pull no punches in their frank appraisals of labor’s failings as well as its successes. I can think of no better way to understand how we got to where we are and how labor might move forward than this lively collection."
Joshua Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York, and author of Behemoth and Working-Class New York
"Over the past seventy years, as the fortunes of American workers and their unions have waxed (briefly) and waned (not so briefly), no magazine has covered the labor scene with such brilliance, rigor and sympathy as Dissent. In the best Dissent tradition, this anthology offers a probing portrait of American capitalism since the mid-20th century, and workers’ ongoing struggles, if not to socialize it, then at least to make it more bearably humane."
Harold Meyerson, editor at large, The American Prospect
"The working class built America, but workers and their unions have long struggled to win rights in a system that’s put the rights of capital over those of labor. Labor’s Partisans is a marvelous collection of writing that captures our finest intellectuals and organizers grappling with the past and future of the labor movement during moments of tremendous change."
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin, president of The Nation, and author of The Socialist Manifesto
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Political Commentary and History
Red Pill Politics Demystifying Today’s Far Right
David Ost
May 19, 2026
256 pages
World, all languages
A SMART AND ACCESSIBLE DISSECTION OF TWENTYFIRST-CENTURY FASCIST POLITICS, PROVIDING GENERAL READERS WITH THE TOOLS TO UNDERSTAND, AND DEFEAT, TODAY’S RESURGENT FAR RIGHT
Around the globe, far-right political parties and movements are on the march, winning popular support, legislative seats, and presidencies and stoking widespread fears of the revival of fascism. What to make of this terrifying drift?
In this timely, deeply researched, and deftly argued examination of far-right politics today, the political scientist David Ost shows that to grasp the very real threat of resurgent fascism, we must look beyond the extreme examples of Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy lest we miss the growing strength and the distinctly populist appeal of today’s far right. Instead, drawing on a wide range of compelling contemporary and historical examples, Ost shows that we must understand the current global movement as part of a new political category, which he calls “Red Pill Politics” in reference to the right-wing meme which purports to peel back the facade of liberal hegemony. While Red Pill Politics exhibits many features of classical fascism racial exclusion, xenophobic fearmongering, enforcement of rigid gender roles contemporary farright parties have won power not through violence and mass repression, but through anti-elite, populist rhetoric and elections.
For readers of Jason Stanley’s How Fascism Works, Red Pill Politics draws on meticulous historical research and analysis of contemporary far-right politics to help us understand and fight one of today’s most pressing political threats.
David Ost is the former Joseph DiGangi Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His books include Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics, Workers after Workers’ States, The Defeat of Solidarity, and Red Pill Politics (The New Press). He lives in New York.
Sustainability and Environmental Justice
The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros
September 2, 2025
Paperback
240 pages
World, all languages
A BEAUTIFUL AND ENGAGING GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING’S IMPACT AROUND THE WORLD NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
“The rare coffee table book that’s also a call to arms.” Chicago Review of Books
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don’t have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.
“Engaging and . . . enraging” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe under siege from four different climate impacts. Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, weaving together contemporary stories and speculative “future histories” with beautiful, full-color illustrations to offer “suggestions for practical ways to reduce climate impact” (Foreword Reviews).
As the effects of climate change continue to become clearer and the time to reverse it slips further away, The Atlas of Disappearing Places is “a striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism” (BookPage) that will inspire readers to take on the greatest fight of our lives.
Christina Conklin is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work investigates the intersection of natural systems and belief systems, often using the ocean as both site and metaphor. Her essays, exhibitions, and installations consider our cultural responses to the intersecting ecological and social crises of our time. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has exhibited internationally. She is currently working with thought leaders and activists around the world to help communities create regenerative cultural systems. She lives with her husband and two children in Half Moon Bay, California.
Marina Psaros is a climate change planner, researcher, author, and advisor. She is the creator of EarthWorks and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Center for Climate Resilience. Over the course of her career, she has built environmental impact programs for government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, local community groups, and everything in between. Her mission is to unite science, creativity, and technology to address our most pressing environmental issues.
Praise for The Atlas of Disappearing Places:
“A colorful global tour filled with artistic maps and imagined views from a 2050 when many problems have been addressed.”
Bloomberg
“After delving into Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros’ engaging and sometimes enraging The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, you may find it difficult to remain passive about climate change for a whole lot longer.”
San Francisco Chronicle
“The rare coffee table book that’s also a call to arms.”
Chicago Review of Books
“Painted with water-soluble inks on sheets of dried seaweed, the book’s maps are textured, attractive, and informative. . . . Climate change is not just about melting ice caps and starving polar bears, and The Atlas of Disappearing Places brings that reality home.”
Foreword Reviews
“A striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism.”
BookPage
“A beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisis, The Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time.”
Yale Climate Connections
“A treat for anyone up for a systematic exploration of climate change’s effects on coastal communities around the world.”
The Provincetown Independent
“Beautiful maps and hopeful vignettes about the future temper this important book about climate change in our world.”
Library Journal
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Must-Have Climate and Environmental Justice Backlist
Afterglow
Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Grist
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need
The Climate Swerve Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival
Robert Jay Lifton
From “one of the world’s foremost thinkers” (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change
The Sustainability Class How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists
Vijay Kolinjivadi, Aaron Vansintjan
"A powerful challenge to a way of thinking that has turned sustainability into a virtue-signaling lifestyle."
Kirkus Reviews
We Are the Middle of Forever Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth
A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s future
Charging Forward
Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy
The End of Ice
Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
Dahr Jamail
Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us “of how magical the planet we’re about to lose really is” (Bill McKibben)
From the Ground Up
The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
Stephanie Anderson
An award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system
Worn Out
How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins
Alyssa Hardy
An insider’s look at how the rise of “fast fashion” obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse
Noam Chomsky Backlist
American Power and the New Mandarins
Historical and Political Essays Noam Chomsky
Back in print, the seminal work by “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)
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Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Noam Chomsky
Chomsky’s classic critique of the ideology of liberalism that justified American imperialist foreign policy during the 1960s a critique that remains relevant to this day
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On Anarchism Noam Chomsky
The definitive primer on anarchist thought and practice, from the thinker the New York Times Book Review calls “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet”
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Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky Noam Chomsky
The perfect introduction to the wideranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)
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The Essential Chomsky Noam Chomsky
The seminal one-volume collection of Noam Chomsky’s thought, encompassing his best writings on politics, philosophy, and media theory
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On Language
Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language Noam Chomsky
Two of Chomsky’s most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive new paperback edition
The Responsibility of Intellectuals Noam Chomsky
In one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals’ relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility one that was to be the guiding principle of his intellectual life
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The Withdrawal
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad
Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan
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On Cuba
Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad
"A strong, left-leaning history of the U.S. government’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba."
Kirkus Reviews
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James W. Loewen Backlist
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.” Howard Zinn
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Sundown Towns A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
James W. Loewen
“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.” The Washington Post Book World
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author
Lies Across America What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
James W. Loewen
“The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history.” Mitch Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
James W. Loewen
Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity
Studs Terkel Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Working and 40th Anniversary of “The Good War”
Working
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives and the inspiration for Barack Obama’ s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
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Coming of Age
Growing Up in the Twentieth Century Studs Terkel
“Inspired . . . the language spoken here is pure Terkel.” The New York Times Book Review
Giants of Jazz Studs Terkel
A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel’s timeless portraits of America’ s jazz legends, for readers of all ages
Hard Times
An Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel
In this unique recreation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity
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“The Good War”
An Oral History of World War II Studs Terkel
The Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, with a new preface by the author
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Division Street America
Studs Terkel
A new paperback edition of the groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name
American Dreams Lost and Found
Studs Terkel
“Here is the raw material for one thousand novels . . . incomparable.” Margaret Atwood
Hope Dies Last
Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
Studs Terkel
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel’s inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the “American century,” Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.
The Studs Terkel Reader
My American Century Studs Terkel
A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel oeuvre
The Studs Terkel Interviews
Film and Theater Studs Terkel
An elegant edition of the Pulitzer Prize winner’ s “richly entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen
Talking to Myself
A Memoir of My Times Studs Terkel
The autobiographical portrait of our leading oral historian
Race
How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession Studs Terkel
A landmark book with an introduction by Gary Younge that brings Terkel’s poignant portraits of how race is lived in America to bear on today’s shifting cultural and political landscape
Touch and Go
A Memoir Studs Terkel
The extraordinary, widely praised memoir “a masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece” (Oliver Sacks)
And They All Sang Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey Studs Terkel
The Pulitzer Prize winner’ s “latest indispensable oral history” (The New York Times) of the twentieth century’ s most celebrated musicians
Rights Sold: Japanese: Yamaha Music Entertainment
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith Studs Terkel
An indispensable oral history from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author dealing with the universal experience of death
Rights Sold: Japanese: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
P.S.
Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening Studs Terkel
The Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews
Studs Terkel’s Chicago
Studs Terkel
ILLUSTRATED EDITION The classic homage to one of America’s greatest cities, by the celebrated oral historian and cultural icon, the late Studs Terkel
Hard Times
An Illustrated Oral History of the Great Depression Studs Terkel
The masterpiece that brings to life an era that resonates all too well with the current moment, reissued in a stunning edition with documentary photographs from the celebrated Farm Security Administration archive
Must-Have Historical Releases
A Plausible Man
The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Susanna Ashton
"A remarkable piece of historical sleuthing and riveting read. The Wall Street Journal
The Darker Nations
A People’s History of the Third World
Vijay Prashad
The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
Blood on the River
A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast Marjoleine Kars
The winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
The Dawn of Detroit
A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Tiya Miles
The prizewinning, nationally celebrated account of the slave origins of a major northern city
Slaves for Peanuts
A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Jori Lewis
The winner of the James A. Beard Foundation Book Award and Harriet Tubman Prize
A People’s History of Sports in the United States
250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
Dave Zirin
From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
To Poison a Nation
The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America
Andrew Baker
An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today’s criminal justice crisis
Truth Has a Power of Its Own Conversations About A People’s History
Howard Zinn with Ray Suarez
“Free-wheeling and illuminating. . . . A readable and nondogmatic book that will appeal to young people especially as a way to rethink conventional history.” Kirkus Reviews
Select Bestselling Backlist
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The iconic bestseller “one of the most influential books of the past 20 years,” according to the Chronicle of Higher Education with a new preface by the author
Pushout
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique Couvson
The “powerful” (Michelle Alexander) exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools, and how we can instead orient schools toward their flourishing
Teaching When the World Is on Fire
Authentic Classroom Advice, from Climate Justice to Black Lives Matter
Lisa Delpit
A timely collection of advice and strategies for creating a just classroom from educators across the country, handpicked by MacArthur “genius” and bestselling author Lisa Delpit
Troublemakers
Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby
A radical educator’s paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young “problem children”
Inventing Latinos
A New Story of American Racism
Laura E. Gómez
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author
Schooltalk
Rethinking What We Say About and to Students Every Day
Mica Pollock
An essential guide to transforming the quotidian communications that feed inequality in our schools from the award-winning editor of Everyday Antiracism
Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Mary Otto
An NPR Best Book of 2017 that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society
Thick
And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, “incisive, witty, and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister), now in paperback