Bob Katz on "Organizing America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). The book presents brisk, capsule biographies of twenty largely under-publicized figures who, against the odds to promote a range of underdog causes, from abolition to union organizing to disarmament. artsfuse.org/317381/book-...

Sometimes, when I'm receiving new arrivals, the books just jump right out of the box and into my hands and then I stop everything I'm doing and read 10 pages and then I buy a new book to bring home. This is one of those times. Congrats on the new book @dskamper.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social!

In @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social new work, KING OF THE NORTH, she shows Dr. King's life, legacy, and relationships in a new light. Here she is at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, discussing his gift for listening. Book available here: thenewpress.org/books/king-o...

Read an interview with @mabanckou.bsky.social about his new novel DEALING WITH THE DEAD.

In a new #PENTen interview, Alain Mabanckou, acclaimed poet, novelist, and UCLA professor, discusses the dangers of writing, the use of language in crafting meaning—and his newest book, Dealing with the Dead, out now from @thenewpress.bsky.social. See the full interview here: pen.org/alain-mabanc...

So stoked to dig into @schooldaves.bsky.social's upcoming book, As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools, for an upcoming @humanrestorationproject.org podcast! Link from publisher, @thenewpress.bsky.social: thenewpress.org/books/as-pub...

@thenewpress.bsky.social publishes DEALING WITH THE DEAD: A Novel by ALAIN MABANCKOU & translated by Helen Stevenson tomorrow. It's a return to Pointe-Noire in fantasyland form...tackling political violence, history's lies, and cultural stasis. #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/alai...

We wrote a BOOK! 📘 “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” is due out from @thenewpress.bsky.social on Dec. 2 🗓️ Pre-order your copy right now: www.beyondplastics.org/problem-with...

THIS WEEK IN HELL! TUESDAY at 10AM CDT: Bronwen Everill is author of, "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). WEDNESDAY at 11AM CDT: Jessica Field, author of, "Eviction: A Social History of Rent" (@versobooks.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

"An impactful read." - @mabanckou.bsky.social's new novel DEALING WITH THE DEAD "combines magical realism, horror, and literary fiction." Read a review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social ow.ly/Fwg750WiGca

I'm writing a new book called "The Myth that Shareholders are Investors," under contract with @thenewpress.bsky.social in it I get to tell a lot of stories about how this myth-- that sharetrading automatically means that productive stuff happens-- is *everywhere* pls send me interesting examples

"Mabanckou writes with equal doses of whimsy and descriptiveness, creating a hero’s journey told backward." - Read a starred review 🌟 of the forthcoming DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social in the new issue of Kirkus Reviews ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx

Delighted to find *Disrupted City* on the longlist for the Cundill History Prize 2025 www.cundillprize.com/news/the-202...

We wrote a BOOK! 📘 “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” is due out from @thenewpress.bsky.social on Dec. 2.🗓️ But you can pre-order your copy right now🖱️at: www.beyondplastics.org/problem-with... #toxicplastic #planetorplastic #environmentaljustice

Beyond thrilled to announce ANOTHER CITY IS POSSIBLE (a follow up of sorts to my first book on progressive policies through a more local lens) is forthcoming from @thenewpress.bsky.social ! So grateful to Marc Favreau, Rob McQuilkin, and everyone at The New Press and MMQALit.

In the mail: nice duo from @thenewpress.bsky.social ARC of Alain Mabanckou's 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑 (9/2025 (already out in the UK) thenewpress.org/books/dealin...) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o' on 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 thenewpress.org/books/decolo...

By the way, @thenewpress.bsky.social just offered a 30% discount for my book, which Publishers Weekly called “an enlightening roundup of the long tradition of resistance within America’s armed forces.” Coupon code TNP30. thenewpress.org/books/i-aint...

It occurred to someone else that this book might be relevant now, @thenewpress.bsky.social

I was excited to do a deep dive on Copaganda for NPR's Code Switch. The episode is now out, and more relevant than ever. www.npr.org/2025/06/11/1...

"I advocate the equality of all languages, big and small. Languages are like all living organisms. They have to grow, but growth involves shedding off of dead skins and then comes the flower." Read @thenation.com's interview with the late literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ow.ly/ynbX50W5HXw

Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social. RSVP:

Using Narrative Power to Advance Liberation - Read an excerpt from LIBERATION STORIES edited by Shanelle Matthews, Marzena Zukowska, and RadComms in @npquarterly.bsky.social ow.ly/qwai50W7NxC

• Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas x Ngugi wa Thiong'o/ @thenewpress.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/hara...

“One Trump supporter told me that if you like the guy who’s making you suffer, you don’t mind so much,” writes Arlie Hochschild, who recently spent time chatting with people who live in eastern Kentucky.

“SUNDOWN TOWNS offers a window into our nation’s past and illustrates the lasting consequences of reactionary and exclusionary policies.” - @newyorker.com ow.ly/sXxI50W5Olp

True liberation begins when we reclaim the right to think, dream, and imagine in our own tongues. Read @thenation.com's interview w/ renowned Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o about his new book DECOLONIZING LANGUAGE AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS, “linguistic feudalism,” and more. ow.ly/ynbX50W5HXw

I just published this new piece in @TeenVogue: The Prison Industry is Booming Under Trump — Here’s What to Know. If you’re looking for a short top line summary of what’s happening and how the prison industry is maneuvering this moment, here it is. www.teenvogue.com/story/privat...

#backroomdealsinourbackyards @thenewpress.bsky.social 6 p.m. Fri. June 13, Toadstool Books, Peterborough, NH; 1 p.m. Sat. June 14, Tatnuck Bookseller, 18 Lyman St., Westborough, Mass.;6:30 p.m. Sat. June 14, First Church,Templeton, Mass sponsored by Templeton Community Against Toxic Waste.

On to New England for #backroomdealsinourbackyards 5:30 p.m. Wed. June 11 Newspaper Kiosk: Harvard Square, with Chris Faraone, Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism 7 p.m. Thurs, June 12, Tidepool Bookshop, 372 Chandler St., Worcester

Podcast: Miranda S. Spivack. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @mirandaspivack.bsky.social @ihppod.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social #BookSky #podcast

Baltimore/Howard/Carroll/Baltimore County friends! Book talk 7 pm Tuesday in Baltimore @redemmas.org @thenewpress.bsky.social with Jaisal Noor 3128 Greenmount Ave. Baltimore, MD 21218 redemmas.org/events/miran...

Recommended Reading 📚 “The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits” By Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises @biancatylek.bsky.social @worthrises.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social "This is an essential resource for those working to dismantle the prison industrial complex..." Alex Vitale

Just published a new #BookReview! @kaelynnnarita.bsky.social reviewed @thenewpress.bsky.social 's "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by @petramolnar.com . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...

One of the themes of propaganda that pervades almost all news reporting on "crime" and "public safety" is an obsession with the idea that the problems of our world can be solved without discussing root causes like concentrated power and inequality. From my new book, Copaganda:

Additional reads this week (because I like being snowed under 🙃) • Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas x Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o / @thenewpress.bsky.social • Sympathy for Wild Girls x Demree McGhee / @feministpress.bsky.social 1/2

#currentlyreading #booksky @thenewpress.bsky.social

New episode. @mirandaspivack.bsky.social @thenewpress.bsky.social #governance #publicinformation #FOIA #mpia Music by Catscan! linktr.ee/ihppod @sunildasgupta.bsky.social

Okay, I'm heading to Philly. Event at the Philly Free Library tonight. I'm wondering if the crowd will let me dump on Saquon if I also praise Jalen Hurts? libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

Congratulations to BAD LAW author @elienyc.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism for his writing as @thenation.com's Justice Correspondent. www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

Today would have been Coretta Scott King’s 98th birthday. She was more of an activist than MLK when they met, his political partner, & the “family leader” on issues of global piece and anti-colonialism. From my research for KING OF THE NORTH: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Check out our #BookOfTheMonth on @thenewpress.bsky.social here: thenewpress.org/books/tax-th... #taxbillionaires #taxtherich #taxes #tax #wealthinequality #wealth #economy #economics #billionaires #billionaire #finance

Great conversation on copaganda this Saturday in Oakland - and a *super-timely* new book! Register here: actionnetwork.org/events/426-c...

LA friends, please join Robin D.G. Kelley and I on Wed April 24 at Book Soup in Hollywood at 7:00 pm for a conversation on KING OF THE NORTH!

@civrightscorps.bsky.social' @equalityalec.bsky.social joined us to discuss his new book, "Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News," (@thenewpress.bsky.social). Keep thisishell.com free and get bonus content at patreon.com/thisishell thisishell.com/episodes/1828

Very pleased to find that my adaptation of LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME has won the 2025 Midland Authors Award for young people’s nonfiction! It’s an honor to join the ranks of fellow Midwestern author recipients Kurt Vonnegut, Studs Terkel, Louise Erdrich and many more.

New on Book Post: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc reviews Stolen Pride by Arlie Russell Hochschild—a sociological meditation on how economic and cultural loss can fuel far-right politics. Read here → books.substack.com/p/review-adr... @thenewpress.bsky.social #Books #Politics

Q&A: Alec Karakatsanis on the Media’s Role in Spreading ‘Copaganda,’ with Yona TR Golding. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Yes, "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South" via @thenewpress.bsky.social is a must read corrective to dominant narrative. People can find link to order the book ⬇️ and listen to Jeanne Theoharis discuss highlights. www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

Studs Terkel’s oral history of the Great Depression in America, ‘Hard Times’, is a treasury of real life stories, as deserving of readers today as it was in 1970. And more relevant than it was two weeks ago. Still in print from @thenewpress.bsky.social.

57 years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Throughout his brief life MLK, in partnership w/ Coretta Scott King, worked to transform American society. The impact of his legacy continues to reverberate.