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Featured Titles
Another World Is Possible by Natasha Hakimi Zapata ● 5
Art on My Mind by bell hooks ● 7
A Bite-Sized History of Italy by Danielle Callegari ● 9
A Bite-Sized History of Japan by Eric Rath ● 9
Burned by Billionaires by Chuck Collins ● 10
Eating the Amazon by Nicholas Gill ● 11
Girls, Unlimited by Monique Couvson ● 12
King of the North by Jeanne Theoharis ● 15
The Problem with Plastic by Judith Enck and Adam Mahoney ● 17
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale ● 18
Activism and Social Justice
If We Don’t Get It by Stefan M. Bradley ● 19
Organizing America by Erik Loomis ● 21
Criminal Justice
Copaganda by Alec Karakatsanis ● 22
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver ● 24
Policing White Supremacy by Mike German and Beth Zasloff ● 26
Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
Shine by Asafe Ghalib ● 28
Photography and LGBTQ Backlist Titles ● 29
History
Disrupted City by Manan Ahmed Asif ● 30
The Great White Hoax by Philip Kadish ● 32
A Plausible Man by Susanna Ashton ● 33
The Road Was Full of Thorns by Tom Zoellner ● 35
Sacred War by Theodore F. Cook and Haruko Taya Cook ● 36
The Unfinished Business of 1776 by Thomas Richards Jr. ● 37
James W. Loewen Backlist ● 38
Labor and Union Movements
Labor’s Partisans by Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti ● 41
Noam Chomsky Backlist ●43
Political Commentary and History
Bad Law by Elie Mystal ● 46
Sustainability and Environmental Justice
The Atlas of Disappearing Places by Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros ● 48
The Sustainability Class by Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan ● 50
Must-Have Climate and Environmental Justice Backlist ● 52
Studs Terkel Backlist ● 53
Young Readers’ Editions
Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation by James W. Loewen and Nate Powell ● 56
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me by Martin Duberman ● 58
Must-Have Historical Releases ● 60
Big History by Cynthia Stokes Brown
Blood on the River by Marjoleine Kars
The Darker Nations by Vijay Prashad
The Dawn of Detroit by Tiya Miles
A People’s History of Sports in the United States by Dave Zirin
To Poison a Nation by Andrew Baker
Slaves for Peanuts by Jori Lewis
Truth Has a Power of Its Own by Howard Zinn with Ray Suarez
Select Bestselling Backlist ● 61
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Inventing Latinos by Laura E. Gómez
Pushout by Monique Couvson
Schooltalk by Mica Pollock
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Teeth by Mary Otto
Troublemakers by Carla Shalaby
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Featured Titles: Progressive Public Policies from Across the Globe
Another World Is Possible Lessons for America from Around the Globe
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
February 4, 2025
Hardcover
432 pages
World, all languages
REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS TO AMERICA’S THORNIEST SOCIAL PROBLEMS FROM HOUSING TO RETIREMENT TO DRUG ADDICTION BASED ON ORIGINAL REPORTING FROM AROUND THE WORLD
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie?
Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, 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 World Is Possible:
• Norway’ s family-friendly policies
• Uganda’ s open-door refugee policy
• New Zealand’ s public pension program
• The United Kingdom’ s universal health care
• Portugal’ s drug decriminalization policy
• Finland’ s public education system
• Singapore’ s public housing
• Estonia’ s internet policies
• Costa Rica’ s biodiversity law
• Uruguay’ s renewable energy revolution
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:
"This distinctive book looks to other countries for solutions to social and environmental problems in the United States."
Library Journal
"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
"Full of lessons for American activists on how to bring enhanced social welfare programs into reality, despite the odds."
Kirkus Reviews
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Featured Titles: Art and Intersectionality
Art on My Mind
Visual Politics
bell hooks
Forward 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
“Sharp and persuasive.” The New York Times Book Review on the original publication of Art on My Mind
Authors discussed or interviewed
Emma Amos
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Félix González-Torres
Margo Humphrey
Alison Saar
Lorna Simpson
Veodis Watkins
Carrie Mae Weems
LaVerne Wells-Bowie
Called “one of the country’s most influential feminist thinkers” by Artforum, bell hooks and her work have enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since her passing in 2021. Her 2018 book All About Love has sold upwards of 700,000 copies, and posthumous tributes have credited her with being “instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists” (Artnet).
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of her groundbreaking essay collection Art on My Mind, The New Press will publish a handsome, celebratory edition, featuring a new foreword by Tonynominated producer and all-around creative phenom Mickalene Thomas and a new cover featuring original photos of bell hooks shot by African American photojournalist Eli Reed. This classic work, which, as the New York Times wrote, “examines the way race, sex, and class shape who makes art, how it sells, and who values it,” includes what Artforum calls “incisive essays” on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isaac Julien, Carrie Mae Weems, and Romare Bearden, among others.
Her essays on Black vernacular architecture, representation of the Black male body, and the creative process of women artists are complemented by conversations with Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Margo Humphrey, and LaVerne Wells-Bowie, which Kirkus Reviews calls “excellent indeed” and “a real contribution to our understanding of the situation of Black women artists.”
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 the 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
“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
Danielle Callegari
June 2026
Hardcover
World, all languages
Italy stands as a premier destination for food tourism and continues to captivate global tastes, making it an essential player in culinary conversations worldwide. While countless Italian cookbooks exist to instruct readers on “how to cook like an Italian,” few delve into the nuanced understanding and history of what that truly means. A BiteSized History of Italy seeks to unravel the intricacies of Italian identity, asserting that the essence of Italy is both metaphorically and literally discovered at the dining table, where food, culture, and history converge in a uniquely intertwined manner.
Danielle Callegari holds a PhD in Italian studies and is currently assistant professor of Italian at Dartmouth College. She is a Certified Specialist of Wine and the writer-at-large covering Tuscany and the south of Italy for Wine Enthusiast magazine. She is also the author of the book Dante’s Gluttons (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). Her podcast, Gola, co-hosted with Katie Parla, is the highest ranked in its category on Apple Podcasts. She lives in New York.
A Bite-Sized History of Japan
Eric Rath
March 2026
Hardcover
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
November 4, 2025
Hardcover
256 pages
World, all languages
AN EXPOSÉ OF THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF AMERICA’S UBERWEALTHY ON THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, HOUSING MARKET, AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
“The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi.” from Burned by Billionaires
Even if you don’t begrudge the ultrarich their multiple vacation homes, yachts, and private jets, Burned by Billionaires chronicles how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us. In chapters including “Road Map to Richistan” and “Extractavism,” upper-class traitor Chuck Collins takes down the “myth of meritocracy,” showing how the rich rig the game in their favor, resulting in an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny (but growing) class of billionaires.
In a wholly original argument, Collins shows the impact the ultrawealthy have on the rest of us: increasing the tax burden on ordinary working people; reducing public funding for schools, roads, and other essential infrastructure; shrinking the pool of affordable housing; and accelerating climate change with outsize emissions from superpollutant yachts and private jets. Perhaps worst of all, the concentration of wealth and power is leading to political capture, undermining the democratic principle that our votes matter equally.
Lively chapters feature charts, graphs, political cartoons, and more. A final chapter on “Reining in the Billionaires” offers concrete prescriptions for taking power back from the billionaire class.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of several books. He is a co-founder of both United for a Fair Economy and Wealth for the Common Good. He lives in Massachusetts.
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
224 pages
World, all languages
BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE DR. MONIQUE COUVSON MAKES A PERSONAL, COMPELLING CASE FOR HOW INVESTING IN ALL GIRLS LEADS TO A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL
TIME Magazine celebrates Monique Couvson one of “25 Black leaders working to end the racial equity gap” in its 2025 “The Closers” list
Girls, Unlimited is an insider-informed blueprint that weaves the author’s thirty-plus years of notes from the field excerpts from interviews with girls and key stakeholders working with girls around the world with her personal experience to expose how all girls, but especially girls of color, have been underserved. This groundbreaking book provides an illuminating guide to fostering strategies that prioritize the well-being and liberation of all girls in the United States, offering practical insights into how such efforts can catalyze a more sustainable and democratic society.
Girls, Unlimited examines what is required to move past the “pocket change”-level of giving to girls and young women and, instead, incite a more sincere engagement in the cultivation of conditions to abundantly resource girls financially and otherwise at the intersections of their identity. By reimagining how we invest in girls, we can shape a new landscape of opportunity, ensuring that every girl can thrive.
Monique Couvson, president/CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color 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 NPR, the New York Times, MSNBC, Essence, The Atlantic, TED, the Washington Post, Education Week, and others. She lives in New York.
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
“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 [Couvson] tells us exactly how schools are crushing the spirit and talent that this country needs.”
Gloria Steinem
"Charisma’s Turn is a vividly illustrated graphic novel. . . . The storyline exemplifies the power of supportive educators and community members in cultivating spaces where Black girls' activism can be nurtured and flourish."
Rethinking Schools
"Thank you, Monique [Couvson], for this gift of knowledge. Black Stats is a brilliant and needed work. We can no longer claim that we didn't know the depth of our crises or the wealth of our resources and resilience available to counter them. Now that we have the data, we must use it strategically to move our people the nation and this troubled world forward."
Susan L. Taylor, Founder & CEO, National CARES Mentoring Movement, Editorin-Chief Emeritus, Essence magazine
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pushout, and Monique Couvson Backlist
Pushout
The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique Couvson
Fall 2026
Revised with a new introduction
“A dynamic call to action. . . . Pushout is essential reading for all who believe that Black lives matter.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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
Charisma’s Turn A Graphic Novel
Monique Couvson
Named one of the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
From the award-winning author of Pushout, an inspiring graphic novel about what can happen when Black girls are given the opportunity to find their genuine power
Black Stats
African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century
Monique Couvson
Spring 2026
Now with fully updated data on COVID, voting rights, Black Lives Matter, and more.
An essential handbook of eyeopening and frequently mythbusting facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues
Liberatory Education for Black and Brown Girls
Monique Couvson
A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout, with a foreword by award-winning educational abolitionist Bettina Love
Featured Titles: History
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
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, A RADICAL REFRAMING OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
“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 a 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.
King of the North 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
"In this gripping history, King of the North provides a powerful reminder that the civil rights struggle always involved more than segregation in the South. Those who seek to carry on King’s legacy today would be well-served to read this vital book."
Kevin M. Kruse, professor of history, Princeton University
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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
January 6, 2026
Hardcover
224 pages
World, all languages
A POWERFUL INVESTIGATION INTO PLASTIC’S IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK
“Fundamentally, most plastics are not recyclable. And you know who has known this for years? The companies that make and sell plastic.”
Judith Enck, founder and president of Beyond Plastics
What if we said that the line between societal advancement and environmental degradation was Saran Wrap thin? Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it seems 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. This compelling narrative reveals how plastic pollution contributes to poisoned oceans, polluted air, and overwhelming waste, particularly affecting marginalized communities, which face the brunt of industrial pollution. The book highlights the pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment and the human body, challenging the belief that recycling can solve the crisis.
In addition to uncovering environmental racism and debunking industry claims, The Problem with Plastic emphasizes the urgent need for action against plastic’s toxic legacy, and offers readers practical, actionable solutions, including a “household waste audit,” which empowers readers to track and reduce their own plastic consumption.
Judith Enck is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, 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 the national climate and environment reporter at Capital B News. He has reported from more than a dozen U.S. states and Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, and Vietnam for newspapers including the New York Times and The Guardian. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Featured Titles: Political Science
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism A Global History, 1980–2025
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale
November 4, 2025
Hardcover
320 pages
World, all languages
A VAST AND FASCINATING CHRONICLE OF HOW GENDER AND SEXUALITY HAS 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 perpetuate inequality and maintain control. Since the 1980s, class elites have widened the gap between the rich and poor, manipulating these intimate aspects of life to divide communities and weaken resistance. This compelling narrative exposes the deliberate strategies that keep 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.
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
If We Don’t Get It A People’s History of Ferguson
Stefan M. Bradley
May 20, 2025
Hardcover
320 pages
World, all languages
AT A TIME OF RENEWED ACTIVISM, THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO BRAVELY TURNED A LOCAL ISSUE INTO A NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE, FROM A PROFESSOR OF BLACK STUDIES AT AMHERST WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FERGUSON UPRISING
“If We Don’t Get It will demonstrate, in vivid, personal terms, what those who study the history of Black freedom have always known: that there is no nice way for one to demand one’s rights, that fighting for justice is unpopular, and above all, that young people have most often stood at the forefront of social change.” from the introduction
Stefan M. Bradley was a young professor in Saint Louis when Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a local police officer. Bradley quickly became a key media activist during the protests that ensued, giving on-the-ground interviews to Chris Hayes, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and others. And he conducted over two dozen oral history interviews with young African American protestors.
In If We Don’t Get It, Bradley, now a named-chair professor of Black studies at Amherst, shows how Brown’s murder sparked a grassroots movement for democracy, led by young people of color, which transformed the way we talk about race, justice, and policing in the United States. Through the authentic voices of the movement’s participants, Bradley describes the motivation and tensions coursing through the uprising’s early days and weeks, the problems of media representation (and misrepresentation), intergenerational conflict over protest tactics, clashes with the police and politicians, and much more. If We Don’t Get It also explores the new generation of elected officials, including Congresswoman Cori Bush, who emerged from the local movement’s ranks.
A story with deep relevance for the protests of our own time, If We Don’t Get It offers a gripping account of how young activists, without previous political experience, succeeded in changing our national political narrative.
Stefan M. Bradley is the Charles Hamilton Houston ’15 Professor of Black Studies and History at Amherst College. He has appeared on C-SPAN Book TV, NPR, PRI, as well as in documentaries on the Oprah Winfrey Network and the History Channel. The author of several prizewinning books, including Upending the Ivory Tower and Harlem vs. Columbia University, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Praise for If We Don't Get It:
"If We Don’t Get It couldn’t be more vital to the resistance pages of history. What a powerful centering and championing of the young Black activists who forged the Ferguson Uprising’s thunderous call for racial justice."
Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist
"An honest, incisive, personal account of those fateful weeks following Michael Brown’s death. Refusing to evade difficult questions and criticism, Stefan Bradley crafts a compelling portrait of a movement the media missed: a multigenerational, multiclass, politically sophisticated community in action, not just in the streets but against a rapacious and racist system. A powerful reminder of why all roads from our current struggles for Black freedom and abolition lead back to Ferguson."
Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"What a gift it is to have a Black freedom historian like Stefan Bradley turn his talents to documenting the contemporary history of the Ferguson movement. This is the book we need for today to learn the history of struggle of our times."
Jeanne Theoharis, author of King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South
"An invigorating and insightful grassroots history of the Ferguson movement for racial justice that reverberated around the world. With care and compassion, Bradley illustrates the way in which social movements are transformed by local people whose lives are indelibly changed through the process of achieving social change. A stunning achievement."
Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Third Reconstruction and The Sword and the Shield
"In vivid prose and with a storyteller’s keen eye for detail, Stefan Bradley makes clear the Ferguson movement’s foundational place in the modern freedom struggle. An indispensable story of political courage in dark times."
Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop
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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
FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN TEN STRIKES, A SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZERS ON UNITED STATES HISTORY
“A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles.”
—Noam Chomsky, on Erik Loomis’s A History of America in Ten Strikes
We are living through a tidal wave of protests and activism in America. These movements sometimes seem to spring from nowhere, but beneath them all is a deeper river of social change work known as organizing.
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 by turning to stories about key organizers throughout America’s past. In twenty short biographies, Organizing America shows how one movement has influenced another over time and how the movement leaders’ personal histories influenced them toward changing the world. 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, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bob Moses, Saul Alinsky, Yuri Kochiyama, Harvey Milk, Alicia Garza, Bill McKibben, and many more. The result is a history of the United States viewed through some of its most important changemakers.
With an introduction that explains what organizing is and how collective action works, Loomis sets a tone that is both practical and historical providing context and inspiration for anyone seeking to step into the work of social change in America.
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.
Criminal Justice
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Alec Karakatsanis
April 15, 2025
Hardcover
432 pages
World, all languages
FROM THE PRIZEWINNING RISING LEGAL STAR, THE DEEPLY RESEARCHED AND DEFINITIVE BOOK ON THE WAY THE MEDIA AND POLICE DISTRACT US FROM WHAT MATTERS
“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored.” James Forman Jr.
“Copaganda” is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970 despite record low crime rates a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.
Copaganda is all around us. When you hear on the radio that crime is up when it’s actually down that’s copaganda. When your local TV station obsessively focuses on shoplifting by poor people while ignoring crimes of wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental pollution that harm far more people that’s copaganda. When you hear on your daily podcast that there is a “shortage” of prison guards rather than too many people in prison that’s copaganda. When your newspaper quotes an “expert” saying that more money for police, prosecutors, and prisons is the answer to violence despite scientific evidence to the contrary that’s copaganda.
Recognized by Teen Vogue as “one of the most prominent voices” on the criminal legal system and a featured guest on shows like The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and The Breakfast Club, Karakatsanis brings his sharp legal expertise, trenchant political analysis, and humorous personal storytelling to delve into one of the most critical topics in our society today.
After beginning his career representing people accused of crimes who could not afford an attorney, 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, and returned tens of millions of dollars to marginalized communities. 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. The author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, he lives in Washington, DC.
Praise for Copaganda:
“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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Criminal Justice
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
May 13, 2025
Hardcover
240 pages
World, all languages
A GROUNDBREAKING INVESTIGATION INTO THE INSIDIOUS WAYS THAT WHITE SUPREMACY COMPROMISES MAINSTREAM CRIMINAL JUSTICE “REFORM” MOVEMENTS, FROM THE AWARDWINNING, FORMERLY INCARCERATED ACTIVIST AND SOROS JUSTICE FELLOW
“Incarceration helped me to develop as an artist only in the regard that the more deeply you are oppressed, the more clearly you see the mechanisms of oppression and how they function without all of the window dressing.” Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
Despite reform efforts that have grown in size and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. After spending more than twenty years in prison, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver believes the root of the problem is white supremacy. During his time in prison, DeWeaver covertly organized to pass legislation impacting juveniles in California’s criminal legal system; was a culture writer for Easy Street Magazine; and co-founded Prison Renaissance, an organization centering incarcerated voices and creating new models of incarcerated leadership. His sentence was ultimately commuted by California’s governor due to his community work.
In Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, DeWeaver draws on these experiences and more from his own life story to critique the central premise of parole boards and prisoner rehabilitation programs as fundamentally re-entrenching white supremacist ideas. He argues that these programs demand self-abnegation of individuals while ignoring the role of structural oppression.
With lucid, urgent prose, DeWeaver intervenes in contemporary debates on the criminal legal system with his eye-opening discussion on the tools we need to end white supremacy. For readers of Susan Burton and Derecka Purnell, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine adds a sharp and unique perspective to the growing discourse on abolition and white supremacy.
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a formerly incarcerated activist, widely published essayist, owner of Re:Frame LLC, and a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow. California’s Governor Brown commuted his life sentence after twenty-one years for his community work. He has written for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, Colorlines, The Appeal, The Rumpus, and Seventh Wave. He lives in Oakland, California.
Praise for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: "What an incredibly powerful book everyone has to read this. Journalist Emile Suotonye DeWeaver’s searing, startling, and ultimately deeply empowering look at the true logics of this nation’s carceral system, and at the ways in which white supremacy is fundamental to how it operates as well as to how we have imagined its undoing, is a sobering must-read for anyone who seeks a just society."
Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
"DeWeaver’s debut book is a powerful and timely critique of mass incarceration. Drawing on a lifetime of personal experience, DeWeaver takes the reader on a journey to the darkest depths and helps imagine a brighter future."
Chesa Boudin, executive director at the Criminal Law & Justice Center, UC Berkeley School of Law
"Reading about both DeWeaver’s experience as a formerly incarcerated person and his abolitionist theory exposed to me the narrowness of my understanding of oppressive systems. It made me confront my complicity with whiteness AND it gave me a numinous glimpse of what community-based abolition can look like. This is required reading for anyone engaged in the work of resistance and revolution. This is the text we need to help us dismantle systems and imagine the future we truly deserve and desire."
Nayomi Munaweera, award-winning novelist
"Wherever you land on the spectrum from prison reformer to prison abolitionist Emile DeWeaver’s powerful words will challenge and inspire you."
James Forman Jr., J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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Criminal Justice
Policing White Supremacy
The Enemy Within
Mike German and Beth Zasloff
January 7, 2025
Hardcover
336 pages
World, all languages
A FORMER FBI AGENT’S URGENT CALL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PRIORITIZE FAR-RIGHT VIOLENCE AND END TOLERANCE FOR POLICE RACISM
In Policing White Supremacy, former FBI agent Mike German, who worked undercover in white supremacist and militia groups, issues a wake-up call about law enforcement’s dangerously lax approach to far-right violence. Despite over a hundred deadly acts by far-right militants since the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, and the far right’s attempts to obstruct transfer of power to a duly elected president on January 6, the FBI continues to deprioritize investigations into white supremacist violence, instead targeting marginalized groups such as environmentalists and Black Lives Matter. In 2005, for example, the FBI labeled eco-terrorists as the top domestic threat, despite not a single fatal attack in the United States.
Noting that the FBI does not even compile accurate national data on white supremacist violence, German also exposes the continuing tolerance of overt racism in law enforcement, and police membership in white supremacist organizations. The threat these officers pose became clear when at least twenty-eight current and former law enforcement officials were alleged to have participated in the 2021 Capitol breach. With chapters on “The Rise of the Proud Boys,” “A New Approach to Policing Hate Crimes,” and “Policing the Police,” Policing White Supremacy shows how the lack of transparency and accountability in federal, state, and local law enforcement has eroded public trust and undermined democracy. “Law Enforcement’s Role in Resisting White Supremacy” points the way forward to a future where far-right violence is recognized and addressed as the true threat it presents to our country.
Mike German is a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He has worked at the ACLU and served sixteen years as an FBI special agent. He is the author of Thinking Like a Terrorist as well as Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Our Democracy.
Beth Zasloff is the author of Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty, written in collaboration with her husband, Joshua Steckel (published by The New Press). She is director of the Midtown Workmen’s Circle School, a progressive Jewish community, and co-author, with Edgar M. Bronfman, of Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and lives in Brooklyn.
Praise for Policing White Supremacy:
"An urgent call for a different approach to policing and containing radical right-wing violence."
Kirkus Reviews
"Mike German’s brave undercover service informs this insightful view into the gathering danger posed by increasingly emboldened white supremacist and domestic militant groups. "
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
"Mike German utilizes firsthand experience and extensive research to expose the long-standing failures of law enforcement to address the terrifying collusion between the extreme right and American policing that threatens the very foundations of our democracy."
Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing
"Mike German’s Policing White Supremacy is a timely and compelling exploration of one of the most pressing issues in modern law enforcement. With the unique insight of a former FBI agent, German exposes the deep-rooted connections between law enforcement and white supremacist movements, offering an urgent call to action. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with justice and the future of democracy. German’s perspective is as authoritative as it is eyeopening, making this a critical contribution to our understanding of systemic racism in America."
Chesa Boudin, former District Attorney of San Francisco and founding executive director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law & Justice Center
"In Policing White Supremacy, Mike German unmasks the failure of the FBI to prioritize white supremacist violence. By failing to fight white domestic terrorism, and even to collect accurate data on its occurrence, German shows how the FBI has helped create an atmosphere in which law enforcement is infiltrated by and tolerates white supremacist police officers. A devastating critique, Policing White Supremacy needs to be read by policymakers and the public."
Caroline Fredrickson, Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and former president of the American Constitution Society
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Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
Shine
Portraits in Queer Resilience, Embracing New Dimensions
Asafe Ghalib
December 9, 2025
Paperback
160 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
History
Disrupted City
Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
Manan Ahmed Asif
October 22, 2024
Hardcover
400 pages
World, all languages
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
History
The Great White Hoax Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America
Philip Kadish
June 24, 2025
Hardcover
368 pages
World, all languages
A PROVOCATIVE NEW HISTORY OF THE FORGERIES, BOGUS SCIENCE, RIGGED DATA, AND FAKE NEWS THAT KEEP AMERICAN RACISM ALIVE
“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
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. The Great White Hoax, a masterpiece of history and literary sleuthing, reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a return to form. We have been here before.
In a book that brilliantly puts our current era into historical context, The Great White Hoax uncovers a centuries-long tradition of white supremacist hoaxes, perpetrated on the American public by a succession of political hucksters and opportunists, all of them willfully using racial frauds as tools for political and social advantage. In the antebellum era, slavery’s defenders used bogus science to “prove” the inferiority of American people; during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s enemies circulated a sham pamphlet accusing him of promoting a dilution of the white race through “miscegenation” (a racist term invented by the pamphlet’s authors). From these murky beginnings, author Philip Kadish draws a direct thread to D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Henry Ford’s adaptation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Madison Grant’s embrace of eugenics (which directly influenced Adolf Hitler), Alabama Governor George Wallace’s race-baiting, and Roger Ailes’s creation of Fox News.
The Great White Hoax reveals white supremacy as today’s real “fake news” and exposes the cast of villains, past and present, who have kept American racism alive.
Philip Kadish is adjunct assistant professor of English at Hunter College in New York City. His op-eds connecting contemporary racial issues to their roots in nineteenth-century American culture have appeared on CNN.com and NBC.com. He lives in Connecticut.
History
A Plausible Man
The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Susanna Ashton
August 6, 2024
Hardcover
368 pages
World, all languages
THE REMARKABLE LIFE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOK THAT HELPED SPARK THE CIVIL WAR, IN A STUNNING HISTORICAL DETECTIVE STORY
“A Plausible Man is a remarkable piece of historical sleuthing and often a riveting read. Ms. Ashton’s tale is enhanced by the inclusion of numerous photos of people and places important in Jackson’s life.”
The Wall Street Journal
“I love this research.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr., at a Hutchins Center presentation of Susanna Ashton’s findings
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States.
A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Susanna Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson’s remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. This fresh and original work takes us through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the restoration of white supremacy where we last glimpse Jackson losing his freedom again on a Southern chain gang. And in a riveting encounter, Ashton meets Jackson’s descendants in South Carolina and they are introduced to his epic biography for the first time.
In the spirit of Tiya Miles’s prizewinning All That She Carried and Erica Armstrong Dunbar’ s Never Caught, Susanna Ashton breathes life into a striving and nuanced American character, one unmistakably rooted in the vast sweep of nineteenth-century America.
Susanna Ashton is professor of English at Clemson University. An expert on slavery and freedom narratives, she was a Du Bois fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center, a fellow with Yale’ s Gilder Lehrman Center, and a Fulbright scholar. The author of Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920, she lives in Clemson, South Carolina.
Praise for A Plausible Man:
"In reconstructing a life that included so many wild twists and turns, drawing on sources drenched alternately in their recordkeepers’ racism and the protagonist’s self-mythologization, Ashton has accomplished something remarkable, a feat of historical excavation."
The New Republic
"A Plausible Man is a remarkable piece of historical sleuthing and often a riveting read. Ms. Ashton’s tale is enhanced by the inclusion of numerous photos of people and places important in Jackson’s life."
The Wall Street Journal
"A scholarly detective story about a man who would inspire a world-changing book."
Kirkus Reviews
"We should be grateful to Susanna Ashton for reviving John Andrew Jackson from longforgotten archives. His was a truly American life, which is to say, one lived on the border between slavery and freedom. A Plausible Man is not simply plausible; it’s a story with meaning for all of us."
Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop and Long Time Coming
"Stunning research and storytelling . . . delivers a gripping portrait of a fascinating man who never stopped fighting for his place in a hostile world, and a compelling meditation on the historian’s craft."
—Marjoleine Kars, Senior Scholar, MIT, and author of Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
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History
The Road Was Full of Thorns
Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War
Tom Zoellner
September 30, 2025
Hardcover
336 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.
History
Sacred War
Inside the Japanese Experience, 1937–1945
Theodore F. Cook and Haruko Taya Cook
March 10, 2026
Hardcover
352 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).
History
The Unfinished Business of 1776
Why the American Revolution Never Ended Thomas Richards Jr. February 3, 2026
Hardcover
368 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 ten 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 protosocialist Solomon Sharpe, and the utopian dreamer 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.
From the Bestselling Author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen’s New and Backlist Titles
How to Teach College
Inspiring Diverse Students in Challenging Times
James W. Loewen, Nick Loewen, and Michael Dawson
April 22, 2025 Hardcover
256 pages
World, all languages
A POSTHUMOUS BOOK BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME, SHARING THE STRATEGIES AND SECRETS OF AN AWARDWINNING, FIFTY-YEAR CAREER AS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR
“Not a few professors teach solely because they have to, to hold a position that lets them do what they really want to do, which is ‘their work’ their research, their writing. . . . Those professors miss the joys of teaching.” from the introduction to How to Teach College
In addition to being a bestselling author, James W. Loewen was a prizewinning educator, with a career spanning over half a century at institutions including Tougaloo College, Harvard University, the University of Vermont, and the Catholic University of America. Loewen was beloved by his students and won many “best teacher” awards. He had an unusual passion for teaching and took the job very seriously.
How to Teach College is a brilliant distillation of his educational wisdom that will be of interest to many generations of teachers to come, as well as to the millions of fans of Loewen’s other books. It encompasses advice both epic (how to convey a love of one’s topic and motivate students to become lifelong higher learners) and technical (how to plan and manage the classroom, syllabi, lectures, tests, grading, and more) all drawing on firsthand stories and anecdotes from Loewen’s own courses on sociology and race relations.
With a special emphasis on reaching students from diverse backgrounds and teaching potentially difficult subjects particularly relevant in these times the book comes to us in Loewen’s vibrant, original, and inimitable voice. It will be a lasting part of his legacy and a great gift to a new generation of college (and some high school) teachers.
The manuscript was edited by Loewen’s son, Nick Loewen, a longtime high school teacher, and sociology professor Michael Dawson, with whom Loewen shared an early draft.
Nick Loewen teaches high school English in Washington, DC. Michael Dawson is an independent sociologist who has taught a wide variety of courses at Portland Community College, Lewis & Clark College, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life.
Praise for How to Teach College:
"This insightful volume by one of this nation’s greatest teachers reminds us that ‘learning how to learn’ is the most important lesson. Never afraid to speak truth to power, Professor Loewen taught our history the way it really happened and inspired countless students to do the same. While answers are important, sometimes asking the right questions is even more important."
Donzell Lee, PhD, president, Tougaloo College
"James Loewen is a legend among educators because of his lifelong defense of the right to teach, the right to learn, and the right to think at all which is often in doubt, and is now under serious and sustained assault. A model truth-teller in the classroom, Loewen’s How to Teach College offers a dazzling profusion of practical teaching ideas built upon rock-solid ethical principles. He shows teachers at every level how to create a culture of curiosity, creativity, and courage, how to reduce the distance between content and experience, and how to challenge and nourish learners in the same gesture. James Loewen left us several years ago, but in this posthumously published text Nicholas Loewen and Michael Dawson have brilliantly captured his voice and simultaneously reanimated his essential wisdom. This is an urgent and necessary book for these times. James Loewen presente!"
William Ayers, retired Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago
"How to Teach College is a 'cookbook' of over one hundred (I counted!) practical lessons, techniques, tricks, and gimmicks that Jim learned in his fifty-year career as a college teacher. It provides a clear road map that will make teaching easier, more effective, and more rewarding for students and professors alike. While it speaks directly to teachers, I hope that educational leaders at every level will read and absorb this brilliant, eminently sensible, and highly readable book."
John
Merrow, former PBS Education correspondent
"While most of us know Jim Loewen for unearthing important yet hidden aspects of history and culture so that we can have more robust content, in this volume he unearths the real challenge of what happens in classrooms . . . ensuring good teaching. He reminds us that content cannot teach itself. Outstanding college teachers make the content come alive and ensure that students are engaged. This volume is a real treasure!"
Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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
A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author
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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
“Filled with plenty of accompanying pictures, illustrations, maps, and sidebars, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition is the perfect gift to help the young historian enthusiast get woke with the facts rather than a fictitious narrative.” The Advocate
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
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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From the World-Renowned Linguist and Political Activist, Noam Chomsky’s New and Backlist Titles
On Cuba
Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad
July 23, 2024
Hardcover
208 pages
All languages, excluding Danish and Portuguese
AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION BETWEEN TOWERING PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
EXAMINING THE CONTENTIOUS INTERPLAY
BETWEEN THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND U.S. EMPIRE
An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the international order for decades. Though its doctors (and fighters) and the outsized influence of its example have traversed the globe, from Venezuela to Angola, its political and economic future remain uncertain as the Castro era comes to a close and the U.S. embargo proceeds unabated.
Through an intimate conversation between two of the country’s most astute observers of international politics, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, On Cuba traces Cuban history from the early days of the 1950s revolution to the present, interrogating U.S. interventions and extracting lessons on U.S. power and influence in the Western Hemisphere along the way. Neither a jingoistic condemnation nor an uncritical celebration, Chomsky’s heterodox approach to world affairs is on full display as he and Prashad grapple with Cuba’s unique place on the international scene.
In a media landscape saturated with half-truths and fake news, Chomsky and Prashad “ our own Frantz Fanon . . . [whose] writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope” (Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana) seek to shed light on the truth of a complex and perennially controversial nation, while examining the limits of mainstream media discourse.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault), and The Withdrawal (with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is the author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today, and coauthor (with Noam Chomsky) of The Withdrawal (all published by The New Press), as well as Washington Bullets. The Darker Nations was chosen as a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile, and Northampton, Massachusetts.
Praise for On Cuba:
"A welcome and timely addition to any library by two formidable experts of international politics. . . . Chomsky and Prashad pack a multitude of facts and discourse you won’t find in the mainstream media into this excellent short book."
Cuba Si
“A strong, left-leaning history of the U.S. government’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba.” Kirkus Reviews
“Chomsky and Prashad describe Cuba as ‘a socialist model for the rest of the Third World.’ They might have left out the word ‘Third.’”
Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, musician, and activist
“Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad have written a must-read indictment of the illegal and inhumane U.S. blockade of Cuba and an incisive examination of the socialist innovations of the Cuban Revolution.”
Brinda Karat, Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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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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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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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 seminal one-volume collection of Noam Chomsky’s thought, encompassing his best writings on politics, philosophy, and media theory
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Two of Chomsky’s most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive new paperback edition
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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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Political Commentary and History
Bad Law
Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Elie Mystal
March 25, 2025
Hardcover
256 pages
World, all languages
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRINGS HIS TRADEMARK LEGAL ACUMEN AND PASSIONATE SNARK TO A BRILLIANT TAKEDOWN OF TEN INCREDIBLY BAD PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT ARE CAUSING WAY TOO MUCH MISERY TO MILLIONS
“If it were up to me, I’d treat every law passed before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as presumptively unconstitutional. The government of this country was illegitimate when it ruled over people who had no ability to choose the rules.” from the introduction to Bad Law
While Elie Mystal may not endorse any laws created before all Americans were entitled to vote for our lawmakers, in Bad Law he homes in on ten of what he considers the most egregiously awful laws on the books today. These are pieces of legislation that are making life worse, not better, for Americans, and that he argues with clarity, eloquence, and paradigm-shifting legal insight should be repealed completely.
On topics ranging from abortion and immigration to voting rights and religious freedom, we have chosen rules to live by that do not reflect the will of most of the people. With respect to our decision to make a law that effectively grants immunity to gun manufacturers, for example, Mystal writes, “We live in the most violent, wealthy country on earth not in spite of the law; we live in a first-person-shooter video game because of the law.”
But, as the bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a marvelous and original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
Elie Mystal is the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution (The New Press) as well as The Nation’s legal analyst and justice correspondent, and the legal editor of the More Perfect podcast on the Supreme Court for Radiolab. He is an Alfred Knobler Fellow at Type Media Center, and a frequent guest on MSNBC and Sirius XM. He lives in New York.
Praise for Bad Law: “A smart, big-picture takedown of the legal bulwarks of white supremacism and its privileges.” Kirkus Reviews
"Elie Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-too-human forces at play behind the making of our laws. In Bad Law, Mystal also speaks as an irreverent Moses throwing down on the Ten Commandments of Lousy Laws, replacing ‘Thou Shalt Not’ with ‘Should Not Be,’ since this legislation should no longer be on the books or on our backs. Thank God this brilliant and angry prophet doesn’t stutter as he tosses these laws into a burning bush of common sense that fuels the common good."
Michael Eric Dyson, university distinguished professor, Vanderbilt University, and New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop
"Nobody can break down the legal systems shaping America today better than Elie Mystal. With the wit of Chris Rock and clarity of Jay-Z, Mystal explains how these laws contribute to systemic inequality, political corruption, societal stagnation and most importantly what must be done to challenge and reform them."
—Charlamagne tha God, radio host of The Breakfast Club and New York Times bestselling author
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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 sustainability expert and has led climate action programs across public, private, and nonprofit organizations for over a decade. She is one of the creators of The King Tides Project, an international community science and education initiative. An amateur cartographer and ocean advocate, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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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Sustainability
and Environmental Justice
The Sustainability Class How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists
Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan
December 10, 2024
Hardcover 352 pages
World, all languages AN ORIGINAL ARGUMENT THAT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY HAS BEEN CO-OPTED BY THE URBAN ELITE, ALONG WITH EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD OF WAYS WE CAN SAVE OUR PLANET
“Caring for the environment means reclaiming ecology for everyone.” from the introduction
With more urban residents interested in living sustainably, we have seen the emergence of a green-tech service economy premised around a kind of “lifestyle environmentalism.” Concerns over sustainability have been co-opted to sell a high-tech urban lifestyle, causing cities to become more unequal and unsustainable, cementing the elite’s status, and excluding the working class, racial minorities, and women.
Focusing on what they term the “sustainability class” a wealthy set of urbanites convinced that we can save the planet from ecological breakdown through individual actions, green and smart urbanism, green finance, and technological efficiency authors Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan challenge many of the popular ideas about saving the planet. It is actually the approach of the sustainability class itself, the authors argue, that is unsustainable; improving eco-efficiency within a capitalist, growth-oriented system will neither save us nor lead to true sustainability.
Vivid and conversational but also challenging, The Sustainability Class explores how investors all over the world are rushing to capitalize on going green. By contrast, using real-world examples of housing and energy strategies, food production, transport, tourism, and waste management, they show how ordinary people around the world are truly building a more ecological future through collective organization in their everyday lives. In doing so, they reclaim ecology and true sustainability for everyone, so it is no longer just the domain of an elite who seek to devise more sophisticated ways to shift the costs of their “greener than thou” lifestyles onto the rest of us.
Vijay Kolinjivadi is an assistant professor at the School for Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and co-editor of the website Uneven Earth. He has been published in Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, Truthout, and The Conversation. He lives in Montreal.
Aaron Vansintjan is the founder and co-editor of Uneven Earth and co-author of The Future Is Degrowth. He has been published in The Guardian, Truthout, Open Democracy, and The Ecologist. He lives in Montreal.
Praise for The Sustainability Class:
"A scathing critique. . . . Readers will come away more savvy and empowered."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A powerful challenge to a way of thinking that has turned sustainability into a virtue-signaling lifestyle."
Kirkus Reviews
"Do you want to attain a sustainable way of life? It’s likely you will end up just reinforcing the hypocrisy of the sustainability class. The only way to avoid this trap is to read this book."
Kohei Saito, associate professor at the University of Tokyo and author of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
"With lively prose, a keen eye for detail, and razor-sharp political sensibility, Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan have thrown an intellectual Molotov cocktail into the heart of lifestyle environmentalism. After reading this book, you’ll never look at environmentalism the same."
Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life
"The struggle to transform society and the economy away from our addiction to fossil fuels, is, as these authors argue cogently, a constant class struggle against wealth and power. They remind us that in that struggle we have the power to say no and the power to say yes; the power to fight and build. Essential reading for the world's transformers."
—Ann Pettifor,
author of The Production of Money
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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
Foodopoly The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
Wenonah Hauter
A “meticulously researched tour de force” (Publishers Weekly) that exposes how food corporations are undermining a healthy food system
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
Young Readers’ Editions
Lies My Teacher Told Me A Graphic Adaptation
James W. Loewen and Nate Powell
April 16, 2024
Hardcover
272 pages
World, all languages
AT LAST! THE LONG-AWAITED GRAPHIC VERSION OF THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING CORRECTIVE TO AMERICAN HISTORY MYTHS ADAPTED BY THE FAMED NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING ARTIST BEHIND JOHN LEWIS’S MARCH TRILOGY
“Loewen’s book contains so much history that it ends up functioning not just as a critique, but also as a kind of counter-textbook that retells the story of the American past.” The Nation on Lies My Teacher Told Me
Since its first publication in the 1990s, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important and successful and beloved history books of our time. As the late Howard Zinn said, “Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book.” Having sold well over 2 million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and numerous other commendations and prizes and was even heralded on the front page of the New York Times long after its first publication.
Now, the brilliant and award-winning artist Nate Powell the first cartoonist ever to win a National Book Award has adapted Loewen’s classic work into a graphic edition that perfectly captures both Loewen’s text and the irreverent spirit of his work. Eye-popping illustrations bring to life the true history chronicled in Lies My Teacher Told Me, and ample text boxes and callouts ensure nothing is lost in translation. The book is perfect for those making their first foray past the shroud of history textbooks, and it will also be beloved by those who had their worldviews changed by the original.
Nate Powell is the first cartoonist ever to win the National Book Award, for civil rights icon John Lewis’s March trilogy. Powell’s work has won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, three Eisner Awards, two Ignatz Awards, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selections, and two Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist selections. Powell has discussed his work at the United Nations, as well as on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, CNN, PBS, and Free Speech TV. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition (all from The New Press). He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist
Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
Praise for Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation:
“Powell’s visual depth beautifully adds visceral layers to Loewen’s efforts to undercut scholastic elisions. . . . In cleverly dissecting and debunking what was taught for decades, Loewen’s stories collectively serve as an illuminating textbook in their own right.”
The Washington Post
“There are something like 1500 individual panels in Lies My Teacher Told Me . . . [Powell] does a marvelous job of synthesizing Loewen’s concepts into a new work that delves into the many ways that history textbooks have long failed our students.”
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“Powell’s characteristically fluid art lends new depth. . . . Long a favorite of radical educators, Loewen’s original text receives the vital and accessible adaptation it deserves.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This new iteration cleverly demonstrates Loewen’s key concepts while vividly bringing the content to life.”
Booklist
“James Loewen’s classic Lies My Teacher Told Me is an essential title in the pantheon of books that challenge commonly held racist historical assumptions about the past. This new graphic adaption will inspire even more readers, young and old, to interrogate these false narratives. Nate Powell’s wonderful illustrations capture Loewen’s sly humor and reverence for truth-telling and will entertain even as they inspire and teach.”
Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
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Paul Robeson
No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
Martin Duberman
Foreword by Jason Reynolds
January 20, 2026
Paperback
288 pages
World, all languages
COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PAUL ROBESON’S DEATH, A YOUNG ADULT VERSION OF HIS LIFE, BASED ON THE BIOGRAPHY USA TODAY CALLED “MAGNIFICENT” NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
“A history of a global luminary figure that serves as a reminder of the courageous freedom-fighting work in front of us.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Adapted from Martin Duberman’s “superb” (New York Times) biography of Paul Robeson, and featuring an introduction by award-winning young adult author Jason Reynolds, along with explanations of key terms and photographs from Robeson’s life, this is a thrilling addition to the young adult canon.
Paul Robeson was destined for greatness. The son of an ex-slave who upon his college graduation ranked first in his class, Robeson was proclaimed the future “leader of the colored race in America.” Although a graduate of Columbia Law School, he abandoned his law career (and the racism he encountered there) and began a hugely successful career as an internationally celebrated actor and singer. Robeson’s triumphs on the stage earned him esteem among white and Black Americans across the country, although his daring and principled activism eventually made him an outcast from the entertainment industry, and his radical views made many consider him a public enemy.
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me is an introduction for readers in middle and high school to the inspiring and complicated life of one of America’s most fascinating figures, whose story of artistry, heroism, conviction, and conflict is newly relevant today.
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he founded and for a decade directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books including Andrea Dworkin, Radical Acts, Waiting to Land, A Saving Remnant, Howard Zinn, The Martin Duberman Reader, and Hold Tight Gently, all published by The New Press Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.
Praise for Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me: “Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, Paul Robeson used his gifted baritone voice not only for concerts and theater around the world but to call out racial injustice in his home country. . . . Duberman balances Robeson’s tireless civil rights work with his marital troubles and later mental-health problems. Numerous photographs throughout help document Robeson’s robust life. A powerful tribute to this #BlackLivesMatter predecessor.”
Booklist (starred review)
“A history of a global luminary figure that serves as a reminder of the courageous freedomfighting work in front of us.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me shines a light on one of the giants whom history tried to minimize, and references our current context throughout the book. Duberman makes it clear that Paul Robeson and his story are as relevant and important as ever.”
Thomas Nikundiwe, director of the Education for Liberation Network
“Paul Robeson is a true hero everyone should learn about and Martin Duberman has done us all a great service by bringing Robeson’s story to young adult readers. This book should be taught in schools nationwide.”
Wayne Au, education professor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives and editor of Rethinking Schools magazine
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