It was such fun to be on @democracynow.org to talk about the myths of the Montgomery bus boycott & emphasize that the courage of Rosa Parks was her ability to take step after step without indication that any of them would matter. We have to stop looking for the 'right' action and just take action.

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis

www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/... 🏷️ @eve-fox.bsky.social, @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social, @woodstockland.bsky.social, @thenewpress.bsky.social

“It's not a science issue. It really is a political science issue.” If it feels like plastics are everywhere lately, that’s because they are. But Judith Enck, author and former EPA official, says there are solutions to our growing plastics problem.

MY BOOK IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY! Here’s a press release, but you can also DM me if you want copies, interviews, etc. www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com

Today, THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC — a book I helped write last year with @beyondplastics.bsky.social — is finally out in the world. You can find an excerpt on THE COST of CONVENIENCE in Capital B today. @thenewpress.bsky.social capitalbnews.org/plastic-polu...

✨ MotL 85 is live! ✨ We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall U., to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (@thenewpress.bsky.social, 2025). moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/01/r... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

I'll be talking about our new book, "The Problem with Plastic" in Woodstock, NY this Sun, 12/7 at 5PM with @woodstockland.bsky.social Citizens Concerned About Plastic Pollution & The Golden Notebook. Join us! www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/... @thenewpress.bsky.social

Historian Chris Moffat updates *Disrupted City* by thinking about the shifting landscapes of Lahore since the 2000s.

An exhilarating tale examining the intersection of our world and the next. Read a starred review 🌟 of DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social in Kirkus Reviews ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx

You won't want to miss this!

I think that a lot of people on here need to read @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social's King of the North because a lot of you on here are ABSOLUTELY historically illiterate. I'm sorry but it has to be said: thenewpress.org/books/king-o...

"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights.." - Read a review of Sim Butler's AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/KsAz50X4Go2

We are SO looking forward to hosting Sim Butler Author Talk & Book Signing here at Bigfoot Books & Brews on Friday, December 12! www.bigfootbooksnc.com/events/sim-b... #SimButler #AndTheDragonsDoCome #LGBTQ @thenewpress.bsky.social

THIS WEEK! TUESDAY: @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read. thenewpress.org/books/and-th...

This Thursday November 6!! Join us online at 6:30 EST for an urgent conversation on the Fight for Black History and Black Education with @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @barrygoldenberg.bsky.social, and Crystal Sanders. www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-the-f...

NEW FREE HELL! Our guest is @philipkadish.bsky.social, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). Support our work -- and get daily bonus content -- before we're labelled criminals under Trump's NSPM-7. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

"Butler debuts with a poignant memoir of raising his transgender daughter in the rural South." - Read a review of newly published AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/KsAz50X4Go2

"Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling" is an antidote to silence in textbooks about U.S. prison-industrial complex. In graphic novel format, facts & history of criminal injustice system are made accessible for grades 7 to adult. @thenewpress.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ra...

Looking forward to this! Please join us.

This week in Hell! TUESDAY: Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness" (@plutopress.bsky.social). WEDNESDAY: Philip Kadish, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

"Mabanckou writes with equal doses of whimsy and descriptiveness, creating a hero’s journey told backward." - Kirkus Reviews 🌟 on @mabanckou.bsky.social's DEALING WITH THE DEAD ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx

NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH: October 16 @ 6pm Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar. RSVP TODAY: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-... @thenewpress.bsky.social

"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights." - Read a review of the forthcoming AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in this week's @publisherswkly.bsky.social ow.ly/cCNH50X4FPR

Shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize: Copaganda, by @equalityalec.bsky.social for @thenewpress.bsky.social! Copaganda exposes the cozy relationship between law enforcement agencies and media outlets, revealing how public perception is shaped to favor the police. #GoddardBookPrizes

Pay the People! is shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize! Congrats to John Driscoll, Morris Pearl, @patrioticmillionaires.org and @thenewpress.bsky.social. Pay the People! argues that fair wages are beneficial to both the economy and societal well-being. #GoddardBookPrizes

Protect Your People, by Raj Jayadev for @thenewpress.bsky.social, has been shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! It explores how communities are working together to combat the injustices of mass incarceration. #GoddardBookPrizes

New book alert! #Inequality scholars:, don't miss Chuck Collins' new book: Burned by Billionaires. It's both breezy and fact-filled. "An economy that funnels wealth to billionaires ... fuels division and civil discord." @inequality.org @thenewpress.bsky.social thenewpress.org/books/burned...

"A journey back from the dead is illuminated by thrilling, one-of-a-kind encounters." - Read a starred review 🌟 of the newly published DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social ow.ly/VWkE50WvEfx

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