The New Press: 370 books
Motherland
Growing Up with the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A groundbreaking second-generation memoir of the Holocaust and its legacy by Otto Frank’s goddaughter—“The extraordinary tale is heroic” (The New York Times).
Rita Goldberg recounts the extraordinary story of her mother, Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who...
The Fight for $15
The Right Wage for a Working America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“Rolf shows that raising the minimum wage to $15 is both just and necessary, lest the American dream of middle class prosperity turn into a nightmare” (David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist).
Combining history, economics, and commonsense political wisdom, The Fight for...
Making It
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A veteran New York Times economics correspondent reports from factories nationwide to illustrate the continuing importance of industry for our country.
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. But over the decades, that share has gradually declined to less than...
Wal-Mart
The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A collection of essays that “do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart**” (Booklist, starred review).**
Edited by one of the nation’s preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart’s...
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Interest in Denmark Vesey: Following the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston, interest in Denmark Vesey has surged, with major pieces covering his life in Time Magazine, USA Today, NPR, The New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines.
Platform: Authors have...
Birth of a Dream Weaver
A Writer's Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
One of Oprah.com's "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick up Now."
Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. ”
-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian,...
The Last Three Miles
Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.
In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the...
Berlin Calling
A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Berlin: Interest in Berlin remains extremely high as one of the great cutting-edge cultural centers of the world.
First of its kind: There is no English-language book on Berlin that tells the city’s story through the subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s.
Veteran reporter: Hockenos writes...
by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly...
Prophets Of Protest
Reconsidering The History Of American Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subsequent struggle against injustice. But the abolitionist story has traditionally focused on the evangelical...
The Monster at Our Door
The Global Threat of Avian Flu
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and “its argument is irrefutable” (The Independent).
Hailed by The Nation as a “master of disaster prose,” author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian...
The Cushion in the Road
Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple explores our modern world with “compassion, courage, and humor” (Booklist).
Alice Walker once ached for retirement, but in the turmoil of the Democratic primaries and the economic collapse of 2008, she realized...
The Chicken Chronicles
Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A “life-affirmative and eccentrically inspirational” collection from the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Kirkus Reviews).
In these glorious, offbeat, and compassionate tales, one of America’s preeminent authors shares her experiences raising...
The World Is Waiting for You
Graduation Speeches to Live By from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Inspiring commencement speeches from Wynton Marsalis, Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, and others: “The perfect gift for grads-to-be” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
“The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don’t listen to them,” acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen...