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New York Times podcaster Ezra Klein has recently been interviewing people who grapple with existential questions rather than pundits. In listening, I'm encouraged to think more deeply too, a valuable pursuit especially when the world becomes unstable. This January seems a good time to release preconceived ideas about how the world should work and instead look for ways to be open, unattached to outcomes. Klein's guests remind me how, in letting go of fear, ego, and our first reaction, we can more easily find places of clarity from which to be of service to our communities. —Lynne
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New podcast to launch first-hand accounts of See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love
On January 15th, 2026, HowlRound and Voiceworks Audio will release the first of ten podcasts based on See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love by Jan Cohen-Cruz. Not only will it retell stories from the book, it will also feature workshop participants and facilitators from around the world.
Episodes will be released every Thursday on streaming platforms including Spotify.
More about the podcast HERE
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Sonya E. Pritzker at
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
Saturday, January 17,
5:30–7:00pm CT
1928 7th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL
Professor Sonya Pritzker will be presenting and signing copies of her book Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule.
More about the event HERE.
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Robert Shetterly to present six Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits at annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration
Monday, January 19, 2:00-3:30pm ET
Reversing Falls Sanctuary, 818 Bagaduce Rd,
Brooksville, ME.
As part of their annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration, Reversing Falls Sanctuary is hosting artist Robert Shetterly who will present six portraits from his Americans Who Tell The Truth project, centering on people who exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.'s teaching of love, justice and nonviolence. These include William Barber II (shown left), Cesar Chavez, Deqa Dhalac, John Lewis, Aldo Leopold and Kathy Kelly.
More about the event HERE.
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"Art in an Age of Democratic Upheaval"
Robert Shetterly presents Americans Who Tell the Truth at University of New England
Friday, January 26, 5:00–7:15pm ET
Innovation Hall, Portland Campus for Health Services,
Portland, ME
As part of UNE's Center for Global Humanities Lecture/Seminar Series, artist Robert Shetterly, who is also the author of the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series, will demonstrate the capacity of art as both medium and message. In a talk framed by inspiring stories of his portrait subjects, he highlights how courage, perseverance and love of justice can light a way forward.
A reception will be held at 5:00pm with the presentation beginning at 6:00pm.
The event will also be livestreamed.
More about the event HERE.
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Alice Rothchild to speak at Third Place Books
Thursday, January 29, 7:00pm PT
Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle WA
Author of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, Alice Rothchild also mentors at We Are Not Numbers, a program that supports young writers in Gaza. She will be a presenter in a community reading of the book We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth, a collection of writing by young people living in Gaza between 2014 and 2024.
The event is free and open to the public.
More about the event HERE.
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Letters That Breathe Fire
El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn
by Margaret Randall
Foreword by Harris Feinsod
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As co-editor of one of the most important independent literary magazines of the 1960s, El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn, Margaret Randall has shared a selection of Cartas/Letters to the magazine and provided commentary and context as well as translation for those that had been written in Spanish.
"A glimpse into an inspiring, revolutionary project of antaño/yesteryear. Poets, poetry aficionados, anyone with a passion for cross-cultural collaboration, and Latin Americanists will adore this thoughtfully curated work."
—Booklist
Original paperback, 382 pages, fully indexed
Coming February 10th!
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The Women's Revolution reviewed by Women and Social Movements in the United States since 1600
Karen M. Dunak of Muskingum University has written a joint book review of Muriel Fox's The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life, and Clara Bingham's The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 comparing their scope and approach to telling the history of the second-wave women's movement.
Dunak writes: "[Muriel Fox's] book more forcefully acknowledges what has been lost in the world of women's access to their rights and calls upon readers to dig in, believe in their mission and, using their knowledge of the feminist past that came before them, fight for an equitable future."
The full review is available online until the end of February. If interested, please reach out to hello@newvillagepress.net for the log-in and password.
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Writer Richard Modiano's upcoming review of Margaret Randall's Letters That Breathe Fire states that the book is "not merely a book of correspondence; it is a living archive of how literature once moved through the world—slowly, stubbornly, and with moral urgency."
The full review will be available in the online zine, The Literary Underground, starting January 15th.
You can also find the review in AMASS Magazine when it hits the newsstands later this month.
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"Portraits of Lives Affected by Incarceration" exhibit features Spoon Jackson
January 17—March 14, 2026
Krull Gallery, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN
Blending visual art, poetry, and music, the exhibition features original drawings and poetry by incarcerated poet, writer and artist Spoon Jackson, who is the co-author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison and Two Lives and the co-editor of The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry. Also featured are works from Tomorrow's Ken Project and the Death Row Support Project.
The exhibit opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 17, 3:00–5:00pm.
More about the exhibition HERE.
For followers of Spoon Jackson, here is his new address:
Stanley Jackson B-92377, Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (RJD),
E Yard (Level II) 24, A104 lower, 480 Alta Rd, San Diego, CA 92179
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"Rooted in Plants" exhibit features Leah Penniman
Through March 1, 2026
Everett Children's Adventure Garden, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
As part of Black History Month, celebrate the history, activism and community while learning about plants and the influential Black figures who advanced the world of plants in their communities and around the world. Among those featured is Leah Penniman, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice.
The exhibit is open Tuesday through Friday from 1:30-4:00pm,
as well as Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am-4:00pm.
More about the exhibit HERE.
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Lucy R. Lippard's
"Notes from the Radical Whirlwind"
Through August 9, 2026
New Mexico Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary, Sante Fe
The exhibition highlights the career of writer, activist, and curator, Lucy Lippard, who has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. Her autobiography, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir is published by New Village.
More about the exhibition HERE.
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Lily Yeh and “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated”
Through January 18, 2026
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington DC
An exhibition at The Smithsonian Archives of American Art highlights artist and New Village Press author Lily Yeh’s work on prison art projects with artist Emanuel Martinez. Featuring letters, photographs, exhibition flyers, and other primary source documents from the artists’ personal collections, the exhibition spotlights Yeh and Martinez’s work for The Emmanuel Project and the Graterford Prison Project.
More about the exhibition HERE.
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My Deepest Desire
by Tamiki Hara
Illustrated by Sandy Walker,
Translated by Liza Dalby
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My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting experience of tragedy, it is a demonstration of how dreams, memories, and traumatic despair intertwine inside a person’s psyche.
Hara was a Japanese poet profoundly affected by his surviving of the bombing of Hiroshima. All royalties from the book will be donated to the Western States Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest organization founded in 1982 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
In English and Japanese
40 pages, 16 b/w images, 7" x 10"
Coming in April!
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Groundbreaking
My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
by Clare Cooper Marcus
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Groundbreaking is a sweeping autobiographical memoir that spans nearly nine decades of Clare Cooper Marcus's personal history. Moving from a wartime childhood in England through her academic career in the United States, the book weaves together stories of resilience, intellectual discovery, and the healing power of nature. The narrative alternates between richly detailed life episodes: growing up as an evacuee during WWII, becoming a pioneering woman in academia, and raising a family as a single mother.
Ultimately, Groundbreaking is a meditation on survival and thriving—on how land, gardens, and memory shape a life. It is as much a personal journey as it is a testimony to the enduring human need for grounding in place and nature.
400 pages, 40 b/w images, 6" x 9"
Coming in May!
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Art Against Brutality
Community and Collaborative Art Projects with Survivors of Political Violence
by Claudia Bernardi
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Art Against Brutality brings a much-needed contribution to the field of community arts and the burgeoning field of social practice art, as well as adding to post-conflict literature, dealing with the aftermath of state terror in Latin America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Argentina, México) and with native people in the United States. It outlines truly collaborative approaches, based on ideas from the community participants, rather than shaped by the facilitating artist. Often the form of the art project is a mural, in which the participants decide on the theme and storyline. These collaborative, community-based art projects engage children, youth, and adults to converse and to find a common thread of intention. Often this thread is rooted in shared historical memory; it emerges from personal and communal stories, from people’s expectations, fears, and tenacity to continue living despite the carnage, losses, and displacement they have suffered.
352 pages, 24 color images, 6" x 9"
Coming in June!
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Stories from Alternate ROOTS
It'll Take Some Tellin'
Co-edited by Yvette Angelique and Kathie deNobriga
with Ashley Minner Jones, Ron Ragin and MK Wegmann
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A chronicle of the origins and journey of Alternate ROOTS, a southern US, nonprofit arts organization that began in 1976. More than 50 contributors bring together interviews, poems, illustrations and essays, both personal and analytical. The diverse stories touch on a wide range of lessons, philosophies, and issues, and its themes include the transformative power of community arts, democratic leadership, and racial and gender equity. This work that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Alternate ROOTS also highlights lessons in navigating organizational and generational change.
416 pages, 130 b/w images, 6" x 9"
Coming in July!
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