The New Press Fall 2026 Catalog

FALL 2026

Tripwires

15 Twenty-First-Century Events That Undermined American Democracy—and How to Reclaim It

RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON

IN A TRENCHANT WORK OF NONFICTION, THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR IDENTIFIES A SERIES OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS ON OUR BODY POLITIC THAT HAVE LED TO THE CURRENT MOMENT, AND SHOWS US HOW WE CAN UNDO THE HARM

One of the best in the business.

— TIME MAGAZINE ON RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON

From regrettable court decisions to wrong-headed policy initiatives and underhanded political maneuvers, the bestselling author makes the case that our descent into authoritarianism was not inevitable. In Tripwires, Richard North Patterson, whose works of fiction have sold over 25 million copies and whose novel on presidential politics, Protect and Defend, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, points to fifteen key moments in the past quarter-century when the country mis-stepped in a way that could have been avoided but instead took us closer to the brink.

Starting with the Supreme Court’s intervention in the presidential election that brought George W. Bush to power, Patterson traces a constellation of often underappreciated turning points that runs through the accidental accession of John Roberts as Chief Justice and the moment of crisis when the subprime mortgages came due, to Donald Trump’s demand to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Marco Rubio’s sabotage of his own immigration reform bill, and Mitch McConnell’s refusal to convict Trump for his attempted coup, culminating in the Roberts Court establishing presidential autocracy.

Patterson’s near-encyclopedic knowledge of recent U.S. history along with his political acumen and training as a trial lawyer allow him to show cause and effect in a truly synthetic way, building his case for our march to the dark side one wrong turn at a time. His final chapters show the way out of our current morass, offering hope for America’s future.

Richard North Patterson is the author of twenty-five books, sixteen of which have been New York Times bestsellers. A former trial attorney, he is a political commentator whose work has been published in The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Bulwark, and elsewhere. He lives between Jacksonville, Florida, and Martha’s Vineyard.

Reviews for Patterson’s nonfiction book Fever Swamp on the 2016 election:

Patterson’s perceptive writing and opinions are just as cutting as Hunter S. Thompson’s in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, but without the snarky profanity.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Patterson takes a break from bestselling thrillers to ponder the solipsisms, slanders, slurs, and slogans of the last electoral cycle . . . he provides a readable, often astute record of a presidential campaign that future generations should ponder with astonishment—and disgust.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

September

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-090-1

$29.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 256 pages Current Affairs & Politics

King of the North Martin Luther King Jr.’s

Life of Struggle Outside the South

JEANNE THEOHARIS

NOW IN PAPERBACK FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, A RADICAL REFRAMING OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF MLK

A Ms. magazine Most Anticipated Book

Shortlisted 2025, Museum of African American History Stone Book Award

Makes the case that some of Dr. King’s most significant work in his fight for racial justice wasn’t in the Jim Crow South, as legend has it, but rather, in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

—WYPR BALTIMORE

September

Paperback, 979-8-89385-108-3

$22.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 400 pages

History/African American Studies

(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-931-0)

King of the North is a revelation—a much­needed book that shifts and enhances our appreciation of MLK’s radical vision.

—JONATHAN EIG, AUTHOR OF KING: A LIFE, WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

The Martin Luther King Jr. of popular memory vanquished Jim Crow in the South, but 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. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly highlights Theorharis’s “stellar” writing and concludes that King of the North “makes a persuasive case that Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign for racial justice has been significantly misrepresented.”

In this bold retelling, “Theoharis depicts a complex, radical King whose fight against Northern racism alternately inspires and infuriates” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). King emerges here as someone who not only led a movement but who showed up for other people’s struggles; a charismatic speaker who also listened and learned; a Black man who experienced police brutality; a minister who lived with and organized alongside the poor; and a husband who—despite his flaws—depended on Coretta Scott King as an intellectual and political guide in the national fight against racism, poverty, and war.

In a book Democracy Now! calls “a major reexamination of the civil rights leader,” King of the North speaks directly to our struggles over racial inequality today.

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. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Nation, Slate, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.

For Louder Days Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness

YOTAM MAROM

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT IN THE AGE OF TRUMP, FROM THE LEADING ACTIVIST AND ORGANIZER

I consider [Marom] one of the most generous and important thinkers for the activist left, for anyone who cares about where we are and how to get to where we should be.

—REBECCA SOLNIT

Yotam Marom’s For Louder Days—a brilliant, lyrical, clarion cry for a clearer, more powerful, and more effective approach to progressive activism—is grounded in hardwon lessons drawn from years of work with Occupy, the Sunrise Movement, multiracial organizing, and beyond. A nationally recognized strategist, Marom dives deep into the challenges that hold movements back, revealing how embracing hard truths and healthy conflict can unlock the potential for real and enduring change.

Structured as a series of reflections on Marom’s experiences across two decades, the book provides a practical handbook for today’s organizers, offering tangible tools and frameworks for building resilient, successful movements capable of confronting deep-seated injustices. For Louder Days doesn’t shy away from the complexities of organizing, but instead offers a hopeful and actionable vision for how progressives can unite to seize power in the future. It is a vital resource for anyone committed to social justice, offering the clarity and courage needed to build a better world from the ground up.

For Louder Days comes not a moment too soon. If the opposition is to hold back today’s tide of oppression and violence, Yotam Marom shows how that can be done.

Yotam Marom has trained and facilitated many of the leading racial justice and climate organizations in the U.S., as well as youth in Israel and Palestine. He was a leader at Occupy Wall Street, is a founding member of IfNotNow, and is the founding director of The Wildfire Project. He lives in New York City, and this is his first book.

This book is a love letter to movements—and a challenge to them. With vivid storytelling and practical insight, Marom calls us beyond habits that keep us safe but small, and toward the disciplined craft of strategy, leadership, and collective strength.

—MICHELLE ALEXANDER, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NEW JIM CROW

We need both strategic clarity and emotional health for our movements to thrive. That’s the thing I’ve learned most from Yotam, and what I see to be the downfall of many other organizations.

—VARSHINI PRAKASH, SUNRISE MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Recently published

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-085-7

$29.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages Current Affairs & Politics

The Education Wars

A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual

JENNIFER C. BERKSHIRE and JACK SCHNEIDER

NOW IN PAPERBACK AN “INVALUABLE GUIDE” ( FORBES ) TO UNDERSTANDING AND WINNING THE FIGHT FOR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Berkshire and Schneider do a fabulous job highlighting hypocrisy . . . while concisely cataloging the billionaires and think tanks funding this fight. It’s an invaluable primer on what’s motivating the public education culture wars.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)

September

Paperback, 979-8-89385-089-5

$19.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 192 pages Education (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-854-2)

Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of public education in the United States.

—HEATHER MCGHEE,

BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUM OF US

Our public schools are on the front lines of a fierce battle. Extremist groups are pushing book bans, demanding limits on what teachers can say about history, race, and gender, and rolling out aggressive campaigns for so-called “parents’ rights.” Meanwhile, the rise of school voucher programs diverts funding from public classrooms, putting critical resources—and students’ futures—at risk.

In this concise, incisive guide, which Kirkus Reviews describes as a “call to action,” celebrated journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire and renowned education scholar Jack Schneider expose what’s driving these coordinated attacks and explain why schools are now so vulnerable. They tackle complex topics in “compact and accessible terms” (Jacobin), unpacking everything from book-banning trends and voucher schemes to the real stakes behind the “parents’ rights” rhetoric.

Now available in an affordable paperback edition, The Education Wars is more than an alarm; it’s a vital handbook for parents, educators, and citizens who care about the future of public education. Packed with timely information and actionable insights, this book charts a powerful “path for protecting the fundamentals of what makes public schools so important” (Booklist).

Jennifer C. Berkshire teaches in the Boston College Prison Education Program and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Jack Schneider is the author of six books, including A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door (with Jennifer C. Berkshire, published by The New Press). He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Another World is Possible

Lessons for America from Around the Globe

NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA

NOW IN PAPERBACK “ILLUMINATING” ( PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ) REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS TO AMERICA’S THORNIEST SOCIAL PROBLEMS—FROM HOUSING TO RETIREMENT TO DRUG ADDICTION— BASED ON ORIGINAL REPORTING FROM AROUND THE PLANET

A refreshing and desperately needed perspective on what’s achievable when societies prioritize the common good.

—MEAGAN DAY, JACOBIN

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 “other nations have successfully addressed social conditions that continue to vex America” (The New York Times Book Review). The product of in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible, now available in an affordable paperback edition, “offers international solutions to American problems” (Lit Hub).

From Singapore’s approach to providing affordable public housing, to Costa Rica’s biodiversity law, to Finland’s universal public school system, in each instance Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world 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.

A “distinctive” (Library Journal) work of keen analysis as well as enormous heart and optimism, Another World Is Possible is destined to crack the mold of current debates, offering “a fascinating and inspiring glimpse of how rational governance operates” (Publishers Weekly).

Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere. The former foreign editor of Truthdig, she lives in London.

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated title

Full of lessons for American activists on how to bring enhanced social welfare programs into reality, despite the odds.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

A worldwide journey exploring how some of the most advanced social policies emerged only after those respective countries’ darkest times.

—MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI, NPR’S ON POINT

September

Paperback, 979-8-89385-104-5

$22.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 432 pages

Current Affairs & Politics

(Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-844-3)

Art Works

How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

KEN GROSSINGER

with a new foreword by bill mckibben and a new preface and afterword by the author

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “POIGNANT, ENTERTAINING” ( FOREWORD REVIEWS ) LOOK AT THE ARTISTS AND ORGANIZERS ON THE FRONT LINES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY BILL MCKIBBEN AND A NEW PREFACE AND POSTSCRIPT ON ACTIVISM IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

This is a book of my own heart, a road map celebrating the explosive fusion of art and activism. Art Works is transforming consciousness and inspiring the highest good.

—V (FORMERLY EVE ENSLER), PLAYWRIGHT, AUTHOR, AND ACTIVIST

September

Paperback, 979-8-89385-057-4

$22.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Current Affairs & Politics (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-672-2)

With contributions from voices like Jackson Browne, Shepard Fairey, Jane Fonda, JR, Jose Antonio Vargas, and more, and drawing from historical to contemporary examples like BLM, Grossinger’s primer is must­read for every artist/activist.

LA WEEKLY

“The first-ever sweeping history of how artists and organizers have worked together to advance an array of social movements” (The GIA Reader), Ken Grossinger’s updated paperback edition of his celebrated Art Works “truly illustrates how art can be a weapon, an organizing tool, and a mirror for activists and organizers to view their own work” (The Progressive).

Distilling lessons and insights from grassroots leaders and luminaries such as Ai Weiwei, Courtland Cox, and Shepard Fairey, and drawing from historical and presentday examples—including Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, the Hip Hop Caucus, the Legacy Museum, and the Art for Justice Fund—Grossinger “tells the complicated and fascinating story of the recent history of activism and the arts and points to new ways in which the arts, pop culture, and institutions are aligning themselves to address issues of violence, beauty, capitalism, and justice” (Laurie Anderson).

With a new foreword by Bill McKibben and a new preface and postscript by the author describing how to combat authoritarianism in this new political era, along with new illustrations, Art Works offers a rich tapestry of tactics and successes that speak directly to the challenges and needs of today’s activists and artists.

Ken Grossinger has been a leading strategist in movements for social and economic justice for thirty-five years, in unions and community organizations, and as director of Impact Philanthropy in Democracy Partners. He lives in Washington, DC. Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and numerous other books. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont.

911, What’s Your Emergency?

The Promise and Peril of Crisis Response

REBECCA NEUSTETER

A GROUNDBREAKING HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A LITTLE-EXPLORED ASPECT OF AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT: THE OFTEN DEADLY 911 EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM

Racism in the ways that 911 is deployed—and sometimes weaponized—is not accidental or merely “unfortunate” but rooted in the core design and the very history of the system. —REBECCA NEUSTETER, FROM THE INTRODUCTION

The world knows George Floyd as the man whose murder launched a thousand protests. Less discussed is that his death was set in motion by a 911 call that needlessly dispatched the police. While 911 saves countless lives, it also creates devastating risks—almost always to people of color. In this important book full of original research, Rebecca Neusteter, the country’s leading expert on emergency response, uncovers a shockingly unregulated system with deeply racist roots.

Although fire chiefs had called for a universal emergency hotline for years, it wasn’t until 1967—when Newark, Watts, and Detroit exploded in race riots—that Congress finally moved to create a system, one designed to summon the police to put down civil unrest. Neusteter reveals that legacy of racial social control as it continues today, with armed police the default response to 911 calls, whether or not they are well-matched to the need at hand. The book covers all-too-frequent killings of unarmed mentally ill people as well as the “Karen” syndrome, in which white women call 911 to report Black people engaged in harmless activities—endangering their lives in the process.

In her final chapters, Neusteter highlights promising new models of emergency response and other changes needed to improve our 911 system to serve everyone, safely and equitably.

Rebecca Neusteter is the executive director of the University of Chicago Health Lab. She was the founding director of the Vera Institute’s policing program and Director of Research, Policy, and Planning for New York Police Department. She serves on the Council on Criminal Justice, a bi-partisan group of field leaders. Neusteter lives in Los Angeles, California, and this is her first book.

Rebecca Neusteter delivers a revelatory investigation into America’s emergency response system. With precision and clarity, she traces its complicated roots, exposes its blind spots and proposes a bold reimagining grounded in public health, safety, and justice. Neusteter pulls back the curtain and challenges everything we think we know about America’s most trusted lifeline. An eye­opening read.

—AVA

DUVERNAY, FILMMAKER

September

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-910-5

$29.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 304 pages with 37 b&w images Current Affairs & Politics

Having a Wonderful Time

Postcards That Tell a Story

EDITED BY JULIAN ROTHENSTEIN

A CAPTIVATING ASSORTMENT OF ORIGINAL MINI-STORIES, RANGING FROM HEART-WRENCHING TO SPINE-CHILLING, SHARED THROUGH THE UNIQUE AND TIMELESS MEDIUM OF POSTCARDS

Sometimes

I think they’re in no hurry to get home.

—J.G. BALLARD

A couple on vacation slowly realizes that they are unable to return to their normal lives in London due to mysterious forces. A man anxiously waits for his friend in Brussels as the violent cascade of events leading to the outbreak of WWI begin to unfold around him. A woman sends one-sided, and increasingly desperate, confessions of love as understanding dawns that her lover is with someone else.

In this collection of original writing, leading authors including J.G. Ballard, Charles Boyle, Nicci French, and Will Self create compelling narratives that challenge literary structure and strengthen the bond between image and text. Each story is told as though it were written on the back of a postcard, accompanied by images of beautiful buildings, stunning landscapes, and smiling faces. Featuring nearly eighty full-color illustrations, the collection invites readers to journey through a vivid tapestry of stories where words and visuals come together to spark the imagination.

Whether the locations are familiar or entirely fictional, the postcards offer glimpses into larger narratives, hints of entire lives unfolding. Having a Wonderful Time is a set of powerful love letters to language, storytelling, and the inspiration that it can spark in our hearts.

Julian Rothenstein is the founder of Redstone Press and among much else has published Surrealist Games, Psychogames, Black Lives 1900, as well as the Redstone Diary, now in its thirty-fifth year. He currently divides his time between London and Penang, Malaysia.

I love this book. It’s genius.

—SARAH WATERS

Contributors include:

William Boyd

Geoff Dyer

Mark Haddon

A.M. Homes

Claire Messud

Ali Smith

September

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-081-9

$24.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 192 pages with 4/c images throughout Fiction/Literature

What Has Democracy Done for Me Lately?

SARU JAYARAMAN with rayan semery-palumbo

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP A DEMOCRACY RUNNING CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO LIVE IN IT?

Praise for Saru Jayaraman’s One Fair Wage:

A clearly argued . . . case for bringing economic justice to a growing segment of the workforce.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

A passionate cry for justice.

—RUTH REICHL, AUTHOR OF MY KITCHEN YEAR

September

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-129-8

$15.95 U.S.

5” x 7”, XXX pages

Current Affairs & Politics

No one has done more to move forward the rights of . . . workers than Saru Jayaraman.

—MARK BITTMAN, AUTHOR OF THE KITCHEN MATRIX AND A BONE TO PICK

Across the United States, millions of Americans work full time—often at two or three jobs—and still fall behind. As the cost of living outstrips gains in wages, faith in democratic institutions has quietly eroded.

In What Has Democracy Done for Me Lately?, Saru Jayaraman and Rayan Semery-Palumbo argue that the crisis of American democracy cannot be separated from the crisis of affordability and economic inequality. Drawing on decades of organizing, original research, and vivid stories—from restaurant workers and caregivers to teachers and small-business owners—the authors show how a broken wage system has drained work of dignity and democracy of credibility. They trace how appeals to “save democracy” ring hollow when work doesn’t pay, and why symbolic recognition without material improvement leaves millions vulnerable to false populism.

This book offers more than diagnosis. By chronicling the rise of the Living Wage for All movement, it shows how democracy has been rebuilt before—and how it can be rebuilt again—by advancing bold, inclusive campaigns that inspire people and delivering tangible improvements in individual lives that prove that democracy is worth saving. At a moment of deep economic anxiety and rising authoritarianism, What Has Democracy Done for Me Lately? makes a clear, urgent case: when work pays, democracy works—and without that promise, democracy cannot survive.

Saru Jayaraman is the president and co-founder of One Fair Wage. She was listed in CNN’s “Top 10 Visionary Women” and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014. The author of Behind the Kitchen Door, a national bestseller, Forked, and One Fair Wage (The New Press), she lives in New York. Rayan SemeryPalumbo is a policy researcher and advocate who has worked with the World Bank, Human Rights Watch, and former Secretary of State John Kerry. He lives in New York City.

Our Own Worst Enemies

America in the Age of Violent Populism

ROBERT A. PAPE

THE NATION’S LEADING EXPERT ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE DIAGNOSES THE GRAVEST THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY—AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT

If we had not recently witnessed some of the worst electionrelated violence in modern American history . . . it might make sense to take more modest precautions. But the past four years have shown that we live in a dangerous new world.

—ROBERT A. PAPE, IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

The January 6th riot, the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the shootings of Minnesota legislators, the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, attacks on judges, as well as the killing of Charlie Kirk—Americans are increasingly embracing political violence. And the call for blood comes from both sides of the aisle.

In Our Own Worst Enemies, Robert A. Pape argues that American democracy is at a precarious moment because the principal danger in this new phase will come not from a fringe militia group. Rooting his observations in both historical data and fascinating (and terrifying) original interviews with contemporary political actors, Pape shows that support for political violence against democratic institutions is now as likely to come from “normal” political activists with nice homes and 401(k)s as it is from the Proud Boys and the cast of sometimes-oddball characters who stormed the Capitol. He identifies the precursors to the current moment, explains why the old solutions are not working this time around, and articulates what is needed to safeguard democracy in this new age of “violent populism.”

For over two centuries, American democracy has depended on citizens’ willingness to accept political differences and peaceful transitions of power. Our Own Worst Enemies tells us how we can return to those all-important norms.

Robert A. Pape is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. His numerous books and publications include Cutting the Fuse (with James Feldman) and Dying to Win. He lives in Chicago.

Praise for Robert A. Pape and James Feldman’s Cutting the Fuse:

This book is a must­read for anyone who cares about America’s role in the world.

—STEVEN D. LEVITT, AUTHOR OF FREAKONOMICS

Praise for Robert A. Pape’s Dying to Win:

Enlightening . . . sheds interesting light on a phenomenon often mistakenly believed to be restricted to the Middle East.

THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Brilliant.

—PETER BERGEN, AUTHOR OF HOLY WAR, INC.

September

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-958-7

$32.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 320 pages with 14 b&w images Current Affairs & Politics

Pushout

The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools revised and updated

MONIQUE COUVSON

with a new preface and afterword by the author

PAPERBACK THE “POWERFUL” (MICHELLE ALEXANDER) EXPLORATION OF THE HARSH AND HARMFUL EXPERIENCES CONFRONTING BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS, REVISED AND UPDATED FOR ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Blazing with the voices of young women fighting for their dignity, safety, and the fundamental right to a future.

—NELL BERNSTEIN, AUTHOR OF IN OUR FUTURE WE WILL BE FREE AND BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

A dynamic call to action. . . . Pushout is essential reading for all who believe that Black lives matter.

—KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW, CO-EDITOR OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE REPORTS “SAY HER NAME” AND “BLACK GIRLS MATTER”

September

Paperback, 978-1-62097-976-1

$21.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 336 pages

Education (Previous edition: 978-1-62097-342-4)

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

On the day fifteen-year-old Diamond from the Bay Area stopped going to school she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. A decade later, Black girls continue to be the fastest growing population in the juvenile justice system.

On the tenth anniversary of its publication, Pushout, Monique Couvson’s groundbreaking book, hailed by educator Lisa Delpit as “imperative reading,” remains as urgent and necessary as ever. Couvson chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose complex lives are misunderstood and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Painting “a chilling picture of the plight of Black girls and women today” (The Atlantic), Couvson challenges the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.

This fully revised and updated tenth-anniversary edition is truly a book “for everyone who cares about children” (The Washington Post), serving as both a call to action and a testament to the lives and futures we must protect.

Monique Couvson (formerly Monique W. Morris), president/CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, is the author of 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.

Erased True Stories about Race and Racism in America That You Probably Weren’t Taught in School

NIKKI KHANNA and KATHLEEN KORGEN

FOR FANS OF JAMES LOEWEN’S LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME , A BOLD NEW POPULAR HISTORY ABOUT HOW OUR SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS WHITEWASH THE TOPIC OF RACE IN AMERICA

Social studies teachers are finding it challenging to teach without feeling as if they’re breaking any laws.

—MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES

TEACHER, HOUSTON, TEXAS

In keeping with a September 2025 Trump administration plan for “patriotic education” that inspires “a love of country,” the teaching of slavery, race, and inequality in America’s schools is being suppressed, and students are rarely being taught about African/Black influence on American society and culture, or about the contributions of Black innovators, scholars, and leaders.

In a myth-busting account following the tradition of James Loewen’s bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, Erased peels back the layers of newly sanitized narratives to reveal the shocking, untold stories of race and racism in the United States—stories that were left out of your textbooks. From the enslaved laborers who built the White House, to the widespread phenomenon of “sundown towns,” and the Black communities destroyed by the building of highways, Erased delivers seventy concise, accessible, and eye-opening chapters that challenge the core myths of American history with straightforward, little-known facts. Written by two renowned sociology professors, Erased bridges the gap between what we were taught and what we need to know.

For students, educators, or concerned citizens, Erased will inform, inspire, and leave readers ready to engage in meaningful conversations about America’s past and its impact on today.

Nikki Khanna is a professor of sociology at the University of Vermont. The author of Biracial in America, among other books, she and her work have been featured in CNN International, Time, NBC, Good Housekeeping, BBC, NPR, and elsewhere. She lives in Burlington, Vermont. Kathleen Korgen is professor emerita of sociology at William Paterson University. The author of The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, she lives in Boston.

Sample topics covered in Erased:

• Why scientists agree that race is an illusion

• When Irish people weren’t white

• When Americans crossed state lines to change their race

• How the U.S. government helped create “white­only” suburbs

• Why Black and Jewish motorists relied on special guidebooks for their safety

October

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-960-0

$27.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 336 pages History

“We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house.”

—Martin Luther King Jr.

A Burning House

My Politics

HARRY BELAFONTE with kevin baker

THE

LATE, LEGENDARY PERFORMER AND ACTIVIST’S CANDID REFLECTIONS ON AMERICAN RACE RELATIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, BASED ON BELAFONTE’S PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AWARD-WINNING

HISTORIAN

The only thing that has disrupted—and at the same time anointed—my path to popular successes was my politics, because I’ve said and done things that most artists would never have survived.

—HARRY BELAFONTE

Harry Belafonte was more than a bestselling folk singer and Hollywood’s first Black matinée idol; he was also the secret weapon of human rights movements for seventy years—a close confidante of Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt; a trusted whisperer to JFK; and a political advisor to African heads of state.

Belafonte simultaneously advised Robert F. Kennedy on how to win the Black vote, openly supported Communist leaders including Fidel Castro, and skillfully avoided being blacklisted by J. Edgar Hoover. He was also a masterful fundraiser, almost singlehandedly bankrolling the civil rights movement from his own earnings as well as donations solicited from Hollywood friends and Vegas mobsters. It was Belafonte’s idea to organize superstar artists to record the hit song, “We Are the World” in 1984 to benefit famine victims in Africa.

In this candid, revelatory book, drawn from a series of conversations with historian Kevin Baker shortly before Belafonte’s death in 2023, the legendary singer of “Day-O” shares his philosophy on racial politics, African colonialism, the emergence of Israel, the shortcomings of Barack Obama, and the rise of Donald Trump. A Burning House offers a primer on celebrity activism at its best—as well as a cautionary tale about the rise of American authoritarianism.

Harry Belafonte (1927–2023) was a chart-topping American singer, actor, and civil rights activist best known for popularizing calypso music internationally. Kevin Baker is an American political commentator and journalist, author of the bestselling Paradise Alley (2002), winner of the 2003 American Book Award, among other works. He lives in New York City.

Harry Belfonte’s achievements and accolades:

• Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner (EGOT)

• Kennedy Center Honors

• National Medal of Arts

• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of the Academy

• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Belafonte’s album Calypso in 1956 was:

o The first LP in the world to sell more than one million copies in a year

o 31 weeks at number one

o Number four on Billboard’s “Top 100 Albums”

October

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-091-8 $22.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 208 pages Current Affairs & Politics

The Opportunists

The Post-Liberals and the Reinvention of Reactionary Politics

HANNAH GURMAN

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW GENERATION OF THINKERS SHAPING THE NEXT ERA OF RIGHT-WING POLITICS, IN THE U.S. AND BEYOND

Praise for Hannah Gurman’s The Dissent Papers: Fluent and insightful . . . a highly impressive debut.

—DAVID MILNE, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

A fascinating exposé of the role that strategic writing has in formulating comprehensive diplomatic dissent and its ability to shape the future of U.S. foreign policy.

FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS

October

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-049-9

$28.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages Current Affairs & Politics

I

don’t want to violently overthrow the government. I want something far more revolutionary.

—PATRICK DENEEN,

ONE OF THE THINKERS FEATURED IN THE OPPORTUNISTS

Since 2016, the spectacle of Trump has overshadowed the emergence of an equally serious threat to our democracy: a small but influential group of “post-liberal” intellectuals (as they style themselves) who have become key influencers of the New Right and who have helped spur the rise of powerful figures in the administration, including JD Vance and Marco Rubio.

Taking a ground-breaking deep dive into the world of post-liberalism, The Opportunists immerses the reader in this simmering ideological stew. Historian Hannah Gurman combines intellectual biography and political history, offering incisive profiles of key thinkers including Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Yoram Hazony, Erika Bachiochi, Mary Harrington, Oren Cass, and Sohrab Ahmari. These figures have played a crucial role in legitimizing Trumpism beyond the MAGA base, providing intellectual fuel for the next generation of right-wing leaders who embrace such varied—and poorly understood—intellectual strains as Catholic integralism, neoconservative Zionism, reactionary feminism, and “pro-worker” conservatism. These ideas, and their proponents, are poised to determine the course of America’s future, driving the creation of new think tanks and media outlets, rebranding the agendas of existing conservative organizations, and dramatically reshaping reactionary politics in the United States and beyond.

We ignore the post-liberals, Gurman argues, at our own peril. The Opportunists is a major effort to expose the new ideas shaping our perilous world—and a first step in understanding how to combat them.

Hannah Gurman teaches at the NYU Gallatin School. A frequent contributor to such national outlets as The Nation, The Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and The Baffler, she is also author of The Dissent Papers, editor of Hearts and Minds (The New Press), and co-editor (with Kaeten Mistry) of Whistleblowing Nation. She lives in New York City.

Bounce Six Balls, Six Sports, and the History of Globalization

WILLIAM MILBERG

AN ENTERTAINING AND ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION TO THE DEBATE OVER GLOBALIZATION THROUGH THE HISTORY OF SIX WELL-KNOWN PIECES OF SPORTS EQUIPMENT

Each ball reveals a different aspect of today’s economy, its history, its rewards, and its challenges. Roll them together and one gets a story about the prospects that globalized production poses for our economic future.

—FROM BOUNCE

Globalization is the central economic issue of our time. It is tied to everything we buy; it impacts who wins elections; and it can lead to the wholesale collapse (or revitalization) of towns, cities, and countries. And yet, for all its significance, globalization is still widely misunderstood—or just not understood at all. What’s been missing is a way in.

In Bounce, William Milberg, a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, takes the game balls used in six popular sports—golf, baseball, football, soccer, tennis, and basketball—and goes deep into their complex and fascinating history, which is also the history of globalization. Each ball tells us unique and vital things about this evolution: The golf ball, for instance, uncovers the dynamics of the first wave of globalization, with colonial powers seeking rubber in the plantations of Africa, Asia, and South America, and the importance of machine technology and innovation. The football, on the other hand, shows how labor unions provided the “countervailing power” that workers needed against growing industrial corporations, prompting steady growth in pay and economic security for the average worker.

Globalization has been a series of choices, in other words—by individuals, corporations, and governments. In the vein of Simon Kuper’s Soccernomics and Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World, Bounce shows us how the history of these game balls helps us to understand the consequences of those choices and where we want the economy to go.

William Milberg is a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, where he also directs the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. He has written extensively on global value chains and their implications. He lives in New York and this is his first book.

Did you know:

Footballs are made to this day with union labor workers in Ada, Ohio. 160 people produce about 2,500 footballs per day and 700,000 per year, 60,000 of which are for the NFL.

November

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-072-7

$28.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 288 pages Sports/History

Side Effects

How the War on Abortion Is Making Us All Sicker

ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTEIN

Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize

A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FROM POLITICO ’S HEALTH CARE REPORTER THAT THE OVERTURNING OF ROE COMPROMISED HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S. FAR BEYOND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Praise for Alice Ollstein: A News Media Alliances

Rising Star

Winner of an Association of Health Care Journalists Fellowship

On the board of the Society of Professional Journalists

October

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-972-3

$29.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 288 pages Health

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50 percent for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester.

—PROPUBLICA

In the turbulent aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the United States has been plunged into a new and poorly documented health care crisis. Alice Ollstein’s explosive reporting offers an urgent, on-the-ground look at a medical system under siege, in which millions of patients and providers have been caught up in the dragnet of the new abortion restrictions, affecting all aspects of reproductive care generally—and well beyond.

Ollstein, Politico’s health care reporter and one of News Media Alliances “Rising Stars,” exposes the unexpected ways in which the Dobbs decision is disrupting the already fraught experience of pregnancy and birth, causing spikes in maternal and infant mortality, and sepsis and hemorrhage for pregnant women, as physicians withhold or delay medically necessary procedures for fear of being prosecuted. A work of deep reporting and profound humanity, and the winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize, Side Effects also chronicles the experiences of real people experiencing the sudden and dangerous drop-off in all forms of sexual health care, from contraception to STD testing, and the unforeseen spillover effects to medical research, hospital staffing, wait times, access to medications, and more.

Even as she sounds the alarm, Ollstein reveals how patients, physicians, researchers, and pharmacists are fighting back, making the case that it’s not too late to protect our medical system from the side effects caused by the current existential threat to our health, safety, and privacy.

Alice Ollstein is a health care reporter for Politico. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, La Opinión, and The Hill Rag, among other venues. She lives in Washington, DC, and this is her first book.

When the Well Is Dry

How Water Fuels Violence and Shapes Peace

PETER GLEICK

A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE FOUR-THOUSAND-YEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WATER AND VIOLENCE, AND HOW WE CAN MOVE FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATION AND PEACE, BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING WATER EXPERTS

What a wonderful book! To understand water is to understand ourselves, our origins, and what lies ahead for us.

—GRETA THUNBERG

ON PETER GLEICK’S THE THREE AGES OF WATER

The first major water war erupted around 2500 BCE, when the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma fought for a century over irrigation canals from the Tigris River. A few thousand years later, both Athenians and then Spartans were accused of poisoning the water supply of their enemies, in pursuit of victory. From the ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires to the present day, access to and control over freshwater has been entwined with human conflict, violence, and war. As a fundamental resource for survival, ecosystems, and the stability of civilizations, water and its scarcity or intentional manipulation have long played a pivotal role in power struggles and geopolitical tensions.

In When the Well Is Dry, MacArthur Fellow and world-renowned water expert Peter Gleick traces the history of water and violence, weaving together historical accounts, personal reflections, and analysis. Spanning over four thousand years, the book examines how water has shaped conflicts, from ancient civilizations to contemporary crises, such as Syria’s civil war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as detailing the evolution of modern environmental security studies.

When the Well Is Dry highlights the dangers of water-driven violence but also offers comprehensive recommendations for reducing such conflicts, paving a new path toward cooperation over water and strategies for a sustainable future.

Peter Gleick is a MacArthur Fellow, an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. He is the author or editor of many scientific papers and books, including Bottled and Sold and The Three Ages of Water. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Praise for Peter Gleick’s The Three Ages of Water: Weaves together themes from archaeology, politics and environmental science to show both the need for and the attainable possibility of a sustainable, third age of water in the future.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Gleick buoyantly conveys just how special water is . . . with crucial recommendations for managing the world’s water.

BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

November

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-016-1

$28.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages with 21 b&w images Environment

PRAISE FOR ZOË WICOMB

“An extraordinary writer . . . seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters.”

—Toni Morrison

“[Wicomb’s] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . [She] is a sophisticated storyteller who combines the open-endedness of contemporary fiction with the force of autobiography and the simplicity of family stories.”

— The New York Times Book Review

“Wicomb is a gifted writer, and her compressed narratives work like brilliant splinters in the mind, suggesting a rich rhythm and shape.”

— Seattle Times

“Delectable. . . . Wicomb’s prose is as delightful and satisfying in its culmination as watching the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean.”

— The Christian Science Monitor

Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025) was the South African author of Still Life, October, Playing in the Light , and The One That Got Away (all from The New Press), as well as David’s Story and You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town. She was an inaugural winner of the Windham-Campbell Lifetime Achievement Prize in fiction. She lived in Glasgow, Scotland, where she was emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde.

November

Paperback, 979-8-89385-115-1

$19.99 U.S.

5 1⁄4” x 8”, 336 pages

Fiction/Literature (Hardcover edition: 978-1-62097-610-4)

November

Paperback, 979-8-89385-110-6

$19.99 U.S.

5 1⁄4” x 8”, 256 pages

Fiction/Literature

(Hardcover edition: 978-1-59558-962-0)

Still Life A Novel

ZOË WICOMB

Wicomb’s majestic novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality, telling the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the “Father of South African Poetry.” Chosen by The New York Times as one of the 10 best historical novels of the year, Still Life is a stunningly original novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the WindhamCampbell Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

October

A Novel

ZOË WICOMB

A South African academic returns to her homeland where she tries to connect her past and the present in this novel by the “major, if often overlooked pillar of international writing” (New Statesman) and award-winning author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town October is a stark and utterly compelling novel about the contemporary experience of a woman caught between cultures, adrift in middle age with her memories and an uncertain future.

November

Paperback, 979-8-89385-113-7

$19.99 U.S.

5 1⁄4” x 8”, 320 pages

Fiction/Literature (Previous edition: 978-1-59558-221-8)

November

Paperback, 979-8-89385-111-3

$17.99 U.S.

5 1⁄4” x 8”, 192 pages

Fiction/Literature (Hardcover edition: 978-1-59558-457-1)

Playing in the Light A

Novel

ZOË WICOMB

Set in a beautifully rendered 1990’s Cape Town, Zoë Wicomb’s “ambitious” (The New Yorker) novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throws up information that brings into question not only her family’s past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society. “Deep and subtle . . . this tight, dense novel gives complex history a human face” (Kirkus Reviews).

The One That Got Away

Short Stories

ZOË WICOMB

Set mostly in the South African city of Cape Town and the Scottish city of Glasgow, this collection of short stories “combine[s] the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider’s intimate warmth” (J.M. Coetzee), straddling two worlds and translating each character’s experience and life from one culture to another. With an array of expertly drawn characters, twelve tales explore a range of human relationships: marriage, friendship, family, and the fraught yet often intimate relations between those who serve and those who are served. Full of ironic twists, ambiguities, and moments of startling insight, The One That Got Away showcases this award–winning author at the height of her ability.

Two by Mingarelli

Four Soldiers and A Meal in Winter

HUBERT MINGARELLI

translated from the french by sam taylor

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL TWO TIMELESS NOVELLAS ABOUT MEN IN COMBAT, FROM THE PRIX MÉDICIS AWARD WINNER WHOM IAN MCEWAN CALLS “REMARKABLE,” COMBINED IN ONE ANNIVERSARY VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME

A reminder of the power a short, perfect work of fiction can wield.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ON A MEAL IN WINTER

From the late, award-winning author Hubert Mingarelli, two of his most powerful novellas, now collected in one volume, plunge readers into the brutal, frozen landscapes of war and the moral chasms it creates. This masterful collection, including a tenthanniversary edition of A Meal in Winter and a twenty-anniversary edition of Four Soldiers, explores the quiet moments of suffering, conscience, and fragile humanity that unfold amidst the overwhelming violence of history.

In the Prix Médicis award-winning Four Soldiers, a small unit in the Red Army in WWI waits out a brutal winter near the Romanian front. Amid the mundane struggle for food and warmth, they talk, smoke, and wait—for spring, for orders, for the inevitable return of violence, revealing the profound bonds and anxieties that define a soldier’s life between battles.

In A Meal in Winter, three German soldiers in Poland during WWII are tasked with capturing a Jewish fugitive. What begins as a simple order descends into a tense moral reckoning when a break from the cold in an abandoned house forces each man to confront his own conscience and the humanity of their prisoner.

Mingarelli’s sparse, evocative prose captures the chilling atmosphere of war and the complex inner lives of men pushed to their limits. Two by Mingarelli is a profound and unforgettable exploration of survival, morality, and the search for warmth in the coldest of times.

Hubert Mingarelli (1956–2020) was the prize-winning author of numerous novels and short story collections. Sam Taylor’s translations include Special Envoy by Jean Echenoz (The New Press), The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf, and the awardwinning HHhH by Lauren Binet. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Praise for Four Soldiers: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize

A small miracle of a book.

—HILARY MANTEL

Spare, matter of fact, and masterfully controlled.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

Stark and profound.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Praise for A Meal in Winter: Short, powerful, vivid, and utterly compelling.

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

November

Paperback, 979-8-89385-029-1

$19.99 U.S. 5 1⁄4” x 8”, 288 pages Fiction/Literature

The City of Jade Trees A

Family Memoir

MARGARET WOO

AN ELOQUENT CHRONICLE OF THE FORTUNES OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF ONE FAMILY, WHOSE LIVES INTERTWINE WITH PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CHINESE AMERICAN HISTORY

October

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-079-6

$31.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 288 pages

Asian American Studies/History

Empty of hand, I arrive / Empty of hand, I depart /A lifetime of toil / Roaming in foreign lands / Finally resting in the city of jade trees.

—EPITAPH ON MARGARET WOO’S GRANDFATHER’S GRAVE

“I have made you a fish, now you must find water.” As family lore has it, Margaret Woo’s great-great-grandmother spoke these words to her son before he left for America in the 1880s. She had sold her only water buffalo to pay for the steam ship ticket, knowing that in sending him in search of a better life, she might never see him again. With these words, she set in motion an odyssey spanning four generations.

The City of Jade Trees is Woo’s family’s story, beginning with her greatgrandfather, an early “sojourner,” and her grandfather, whose arrival coincided with the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and continuing with her father, a trained navigator in the Flying Tigers, and her mother, the privileged daughter of a member of the infamous Green Gang. By the time Woo stepped foot on American soil at the age of seven to join her family, who now ran a Chinese restaurant, it was during a rare welcoming window of immigration reform.

Illuminating the greater arc of Chinese American history and the history of immigration to the United States, The City of Jade Trees is a powerful, moving story of each generation of a family forced to negotiate their own identity as they leave all that they know behind for a future they cannot yet see.

Margaret Woo is a professor of law at Northeastern and a former fellow of Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. She has served on the boards of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and is on the Senior Scholar Roster for the Fulbright Scholars Program. She lives in Boston and this is her first book.

A Natural History of the Spirits

On Ecology, Belonging, and the Sublime

JORI

LEWIS

FROM THE WINNER OF JAMES BEARD, HARRIET TUBMAN, AND WHITING AWARDS, A SHIMMERING AND UNEXPECTED VISION OF THE WORLD WE INHABIT TOGETHER, FOR READERS OF ROBIN WALL KIMMERER’S BRAIDING SWEETGRASS AND BARRY LOPEZ’S ARCTIC DREAMS

Lewis’s work fuses powerful storytelling and authoritative historical research, and she is adept at framing local events against a global backdrop.

—WHITING AWARD CITATION

From the celebrated journalist whose work has been hailed by Tiya Miles as “broad, complex, and unexpected,” and by Publishers Weekly as “informative and compassionate,” award-winning author Jori Lewis’s stunning and completely original new book blends scientific research, myth, folklore, and cultural analysis in a lyrical literary work that observes the natural world as an entry point into understanding the traumas of our history and the unexplored dimensions of our spiritual lives.

A Natural History of the Spirits offers profound meditations on the history of colonialism, racism, and social and ecological change, exploring such wide-ranging subjects as the reproduction crisis of the long-lived African baobab tree in the face of climate change; the threatened marine gastropods whose shells have both mystical and monetary meaning; the evolutionary history of the watermelon and how racist stereotypes related to it developed and persist in the United States; the disquieted spirits of the Senegalese island Sangomar in the wake of new oil and gas exploration in the area; and how, by observing the habits of the yellow gardenia, we may more deeply understand how we create home.

A Natural History of the Spirits grapples with how we have made, and continue to make, meaning of the world by reading the land, the animals, the water, and the skies.

Jori Lewis is an award-winning journalist whose reports have appeared on PRI’s The World and in Discover Magazine, Pacific Standard, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her first book, Slaves for Peanuts (published by The New Press), won a Whiting Award, a James Beard Award, and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Lewis splits her time between Chicago, Illinois, and Senegal.

Praise for Jori Lewis’s Slaves for Peanuts: Lyrical and powerful.

—HARRIET TUBMAN PRIZE CITATION

Plumbs a fascinating and disturbing slice of history, shining a light on another glaring example of Western hypocrisy and oppression.

NPR BOOKS

Rich and very readable.

WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

October

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-963-1

$26.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 224 pages Nature/History

Survivor Genius A New

Vision for Ending Gender-Based Violence

SHEERINE ALEMZADEH

A POWERFUL CALL TO RECOGNIZE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ARE ESSENTIAL TO ENDING IT, BY THE CO-FOUNDER OF HEALING TO ACTION

[Alemzadeh is] committed to expanding the movement to end sexual violence by developing the leadership of survivors of sexual violence . . . and ensuring that we are at the forefront of power building and decision making about our own futures.

—TARANA BURKE IN TIME

December

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-968-6

$26.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 192 pages Current Affairs & Politics

In the act of surviving, survivors acquire an unmatched capacity to identify and make sense of why violence occurs, and how to stop it.

—FROM SURVIVOR GENIUS

In an era in which presidential candidates can be elected despite a court certified finding of sexual assault, where the federal government can deny the identity of transgender people, and state legislatures have sanctioned forced childbirth, the gender justice movement is in a fight for its life. Survivor Genius presents a road map for reinvigorating a part of that movement, arguing that survivors of violence are themselves the bold, resourceful, and creative leaders we need to disrupt stigma surrounding gender-based violence and to develop innovative solutions to end it.

Sheerine Alemzadeh, an attorney and co-director of one of the leading groups in the field, dismantles, one-by-one, arguments that victims are too fragile, broken, or scared to do more than share their stories in a legislative hearing. She offers a sharp analysis of the failures of traditional advocacy models led by “professionals,” and argues for a new paradigm in which survivors are leading players in the movement to end gender-based violence.

For readers invested in social movements, community empowerment, and public policy, Survivor Genius offers a brilliant reframing capable of transforming both cultural understanding and public policy around an issue too often normalized as inevitable.

Sheerine Alemzadeh is the co-founder and co-director of Healing to Action, a pioneering grassroots organization whose mission is to end gender-based violence by building the leadership and collective power of survivors. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Hill, and Teen Vogue. She lives in Chicago and this is her first book.

Anti-Monopoly

A Citizen’s Guide

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT

IN A MOVEMENT-DEFINING BOOK, THE “GODMOTHER OF THE CURRENT MOMENT OF DISSATISFACTION WITH ESTABLISHMENT POLITICS” ( THE NEW YORK TIMES ) TELLS THE STORY OF THE RISING ANTIMONOPOLY MOVEMENT AND CHARTS A COURSE TO A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE

At last someone has written a book that puts a name to what is perhaps the most significant factor shaping American politics today: corruption . . . a masterly work of scholarship.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ON TEACHOUT’S CORRUPTION IN AMERICA

In a short, sharp political book, The Nation magazine’s “Anti-Monopolist” columnist and “a prophet of the resurgent left” (Franklin Foer) explains the battle between the forces of oligarchy and the rise of the new anti-monopoly movement. Using the stories of modern anti-monopoly heroes including Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan; blueberry farmer Hugh Kent, who turned his battle with Driscoll’s into a farmers’ movement; and Doha Mekki, the daughter of a Sudanese asylum seeker who took on Google and won; Teachout explains how anti-monopoly cuts across traditional political lines and gives real teeth to economic populism.

Teachout, a scholar of the law of democracy and a politician whose run for governor of New York State shocked the political establishment, argues that monopoly is the architecture of private tyranny, and that breaking corporate power is essential to building a new democracy. From AI to agriculture, health care to energy, Americans understand that corporate concentration doesn’t just cause inequality; it organizes power. Anti-Monopoly gives that feeling a name, a history, and a way forward.

After a spate of books out of the abundance movement arguing that we need to remove local democracy and focus on efficiency at scale, this book provides a sharp counterpoint.

Zephyr Teachout is a professor at Fordham Law School, a former candidate for public office, and a columnist for The Nation. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs. She is the author of Corruption in America and Break ’Em Up and lives in East Harlem, New York.

Praise for Zephyr Teachout’s books:

Corruption in America:

Ms. Teachout has written the book on political corruption— literally—and is recognized as a national expert on this scourge.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Break ’Em Up:

A shocking guide book to these corporate Dark Ages. . . . Read it and let’s get ourselves out of this awful place.

—THOMAS FRANK, AUTHOR OF LISTEN, LIBERAL

October

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-074-1

$23.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 176 pages Current Affairs & Politics

Under the Neem Tree

Stories

RANIA MAMOUN

translated from the arabic by elisabeth jaquette

AN EXQUISITELY WROUGHT, DEEPLY PERSONAL COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM A FINALIST FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION

Praise for Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise: A phenomenal, exacting collection . . . intense and intimate, and always bordering, with absolute control, on the subversive and erotic.

—PRETI TANEJA, AUTHOR OF WE THAT ARE YOUNG

February

Hardcover, 979-8-89385-019-2

$24.99 U.S.

5” x 8”, 192 pages Fiction/Literature

Stunning . . . Mamoun reaches straight into the heartbeat of her subject matter, laying bare humanity in all its tenderness and tenacity.

—LEILA ABOULELA, AUTHOR OF ELSEWHERE HOME

A young girl grows jealous of her mother’s lemon tree, which may be more sentient than she knows. A college student confronts tragedies past and present when police attack a university protest. A lawyer desperately searches the city for a woman claiming to have been sent from the hereafter.

In her second collection of stories after Thirteen Months of Sunrise, the unique voice of Sudanese writer and poet Rania Mamoun is on full display. Under the Neem Tree, her first collection to be published in the United States, now in a wonderful translation by Elisabeth Jaquette, is a powerful and intimate set of stories that blends fiction with memoir to create a rich, multifaceted portrait of Sudanese women—one with a magical edge.

From unexpected love to political defiance, Mamoun brings tenderness and a poetic sensibility to tales of human connection. Grounded in the reality of life and politics in Sudan, while also laced with elements of the surreal and uncanny, these twelve stories will be embraced by fans of Claire Keegan and Marie NDiaye, and by English-language readers eager for emotionally intimate characters, deeply human stories, and a striking, unique voice.

Rania Mamoun is the author of the poetry collection Something Evergreen Called Life and the story collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise. She is a Writer in Residence at the City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic and the executive director of Words Without Borders. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for a National Book Award and longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Condemned

The Punishment of Black Children and the Evolution of Criminal Injustice in America

CRYSTAL LYNN SHEFFIELD

A PARADIGM-SHIFTING ARGUMENT THAT TWO CENTURIES OF RUTHLESS PUNISHMENT OF BLACK CHILDREN SOWED THE SEEDS OF MASS INCARCERATION, BY THE AWARD-WINNING SCHOLAR

For over two centuries, the state has imposed violence against Black children as a means of establishing and maintaining white supremacy. The lack of awareness of this history has much to do with the way society fails to recognize Black children as children.

—CRYSTAL LYNN SHEFFIELD, THE WASHINGTON POST

In 1827, a twelve-year-old enslaved boy named James Guild was sentenced to death and hanged in public, becoming one of the youngest known children to be executed in the United States.

Condemned makes the bold and troubling argument that Guild’s execution was not an aberration—and that since the colonial period, in both the North and South, the development of the American criminal justice system has been built atop the punishment of Black children. A brilliantly researched history, and an elegy to lives lost or destroyed, Condemned reconstructs the stories of free, enslaved, and indentured Black children whose rights were denied in America’s courtrooms as our legal system evolved. Award-winning historian Crystal Lynn Sheffield, the first scholar to unearth the stories of Black children in key prison registers and court documents, illustrates how these decisions continue to echo in the present day, doing incredible harm to all American children.

With the revelatory impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Monique Couvson’s Pushout, Condemned restores these forgotten children from the recesses of the archives, filling in the gaps in the historical record with compassion—and granting them long-overdue exonerations.

Crystal Lynn Sheffield is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia and an award-winning scholar of race, gender, and childhood in early America. She is the author of Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Black Perspectives She lives in Vancouver.

Praise for Crystal Lynn Sheffield’s Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood:

In this engaging and innovative work, Dr. Crystal Lynn Sheffield begins the crucial work of filling the gaps in knowledge about Black children in the antebellum era.

MS. MAGAZINE

Prompts us to rethink the construction of childhood and the experiences of Black children and their parents in northern cities.

—ERICA ARMSTRONG DUNBAR, CHARLES AND MARY BEARD DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER CAUGHT

January

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-906-8

$29.99 U.S.

6” x 9”, 304 pages Criminal Justice/History

Bill of Fare for Lincoln’s Second Presidential Inauguration Ball in Washington, DC, on March 6, 1865

All the Presidents’ Menus

A Culinary History of the White House

SUZANNE EVANS

A TOUR OF WHITE HOUSE DINING, FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON’S BREAKFAST HABITS TO BARACK OBAMA’S STATE DINNERS, BY THE RENOWNED CREATOR OF THE HISTORY CHEF BLOG

It isn’t just about food and entertainment, but about keeping America’s alliances together.

—MATTHEW COSTELLO, SENIOR HISTORIAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

You might remember that Ronald Regan loved jellybeans, but did you know he ate them as an aid to stop smoking? Did you know John Adams was fond of Green Sea Turtle Soup? All the Presidents’ Menus is a delectable journey through American history, served one dish at a time. Historian and author Suzanne Evans uncovers the fascinating intersection of food, politics, and culture, revealing how meals have shaped pivotal moments in the nation’s story. From Thomas Jefferson’s introduction of macaroni and cheese to the White House to John F. Kennedy’s space-age dining innovations, this book is packed with vivid anecdotes, historic recipes, and surprising culinary trivia. Discover the untold stories behind presidential tables, including Lincoln’s love for gingerbread men, the Potomac “Oyster Wars” that influenced the Constitution, and the scandal of “embalmed beef” that revolutionized food safety laws. With each chapter, Evans serves up a feast of history, personality, and national culture, making All the Presidents’ Menus a must-read for anyone curious about the flavors that have shaped America.

Who knew history could be so delicious?

Suzanne Evans is the founding writer of The History Channel’s “Hungry History” website and the creator and writer of the popular blog History Chef. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and other major publications. She lives in Newport Beach, California.

February

Hardcover, 978-1-62097-957-0 $27.99 U.S.

5 1⁄2” x 8 1⁄2”, 256 pages with 15 b&w images History

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