Featured Releases
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Hello, Cruel World
Kate Bornstein
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
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Howard Zinn on Race
Howard Zinn
Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic.
Special Items
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2011 Frankfurt Rights Catalog
View and download the 2011 Frankfurt Rights Catalog from Issuu.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
New & Forthcoming Titles
Eva Gabrielsson’s national bestseller “There are Things I Want You to Know” About Stieg Larsson and Me is now available in paperback! Called “a book not to be missed” by Gloria Steinem. You can view and download the reading group guide for this book on Issuu.
Voices of the Women’s Health Movement, edited by renowned advocate Barbara Seaman, will be available in two volumes (one and two) on Valentine’s Day. On February 15th, the Barnard Center for Research on Women is cosponsoring a public panel featuring Laura Eldridge, the co-editor of the book.
The Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army by Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski will be on sale February 7th! Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jagielski digs himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerges with a compassionate, incisive, and magisterial account of a world that is just starting to pull itself out of the horrors of war.
In the News 
Ina May Gaskin featured on the Sun Magazine homepage
January 20, 2012
“My partners and I — and countless other midwives — know that, under the right circumstances, births can be safely handled with a minimum of c-sections.” - Ina May Gaskin
Kirkus reviews Hamas
January 19, 2012
“An intriguing study of Hamas’ tortuous movement from ‘pebbles to power…from terrorist attacks to ministries.’” — Kirkus
Multimedia 
Loretta Napoleoni on GritTV
Web Spotlight
State of the Union: a photo blog by Linh Dinh
State of the Union is a photo blog from Linh Dinh, editor of Night, Again, and author of Blood and Soap, Fake House, and Love Like Hate, among others. To date, Dinh has snapped over 3,400 photos of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Austin, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City (KS), Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Providence, Richmond, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Washington, Wilmington, and many more cities across the United States. Dinh documents the side of the US many don’t want to see: a distinctly twenty-first century mixture of hyperkinetic, colorful plastic consumer goods and the grayness of life in the American underclass.
Recent News
New Releases
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Clean
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Scorched Earth
Fred A. Wilcox
The first full-length book on the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment.
