At the start of October, we were saddened to hear about the passing of Jane Goodall, renowned for her ethological work with primates, and a staunch advocate for conservation of the environment. Pictured on the right is AnaSophia Brown, granddaughter of NVP author, Illéne Pevec, with Jane Goodall. Dr. Goodall is holding a copy of Dr. Pevec's, Growing a Life, a book on the positive impact of community gardening programs aimed at teens. | | | | | |
As promised in our last newsletter, we have been sharing clips from our 20th Anniversary Author Roundtable on all our social media channels. The first in this series features Bill Cleveland, author of Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines and producer of the Art Is Change podcast, comparing the art and activism scene 20 years ago to today's scene. Tune in for more throughout the month in our social media!
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Original Paperback, 390 Pages,
7.5 x 9.25 inches, 576 color photos
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Living Toward Justice
A Time Capsule
Sonya E. Pritzker with Living Justice Project Contributors
November 18, 2025
An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life.
Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule documents three collaborative time capsules in 2022, when fifty-four practitioners of embodied social justice came together to respond to a series of prompts and activities centered around the question: "What does it look, feel, and sound like to live (toward) justice in your life?" Through photographs, video and audio recordings, and text-based reflections, they offer readers a vivid an immersive experience of embodying justice during a unique moment in history.
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“A powerful and inspiring testament to what it means to weave embodied social justice into the fabric of daily life. With insight, compassion, and vulnerability, Pritzker and her collaborators show us how our bodies are both a site of injustice and the ground for our liberation. A must-read for anyone committed to building a more just, connected, and hopeful world.”
—Rae Johnson, PhD, author, Embodied Social Justice and Embodied Activism
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Sonya E. Pritzker, Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, is a linguistic and medical anthropologist, as well as a licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine. Her work focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideologies of race, class, gender, health, and selfhood.
Integrating theories and methods from linguistic, psychological, and biocultural medical anthropology, her research emphasizes collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to advance understanding of human emotion, intimacy, and physical and mental well-being.
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Book Launch and Author Signing at the Annual
American Anthropological Association Meeting
Friday, November 21 2025, 3pm CT
NYU Press, booth #218, New Orleans
More information about this annual meeting HERE.
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Prof. Pritzker article, "Just chronotopes: Embodiment, social justice, and 'the somatopic imagination,'” published in Linguistic Anthropology
Pritzker expands on data drawn from The Living Toward Justice Project in an investigative paper centered around “somatopic” formulations of social justice, and its ability to instigate a wider and more diverse definition of social justice as a whole.
Read the full open access article HERE.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer to give inaugural address for
Distinguished Lecture Series
Wednesday, November 5, 6:45pm ET
McAlister Auditorium, Daniel Music Building,
Furman University, Greenville, SC
Robin Wall Kimmerer, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice, will be speaking as part of the Furman Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture Series. The address will be followed by a brief Q&A and a book signing. The event is free and open to the public.
Learn more about the event HERE.
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Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell The Truth at NJEA Convention
Thursday, November 6–Friday, November 7
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ
Tewnty-four of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell The Truth portraits will be on display at the "Resilience and Reflection Row" and immersive space on the Exhibit Floor. Copies of his Americans Who Tell The Truth books will also be available for purchase.
Learn more about the conference HERE.
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Lucy R. Lippard in Conversation with Suzanne Lacy
Friday, November 7, 5:30–7:30pm ET
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Lucy R. Lippard, author of Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, will be joined by Suzanne Lacy, an L.A.-based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art, to speak about their friendship and shared history at the front lines of engagement with social themes and issues.
Learn more about the event HERE. Register to attend HERE.
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Alice Rothchild reading and book signing
Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:30pm ET
Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY
Buffalo Street Books will host author Alice Rothchild for a reading and book signing of her memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician.
More information HERE.
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Alice Rothchild at the Dorothy Cotton Institute
Dinner & Reception
Sunday, November 16, 2025
CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY
Dorothy Cotton Institute is hosting a dinner/reception for their special guest Alice Rothchild. The event is open to the public.
More information to come at their website HERE.
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Alice Rothchild to speak at the Tikkun v'Or Reform Temple
Friday, November 17, 2025, 7:00–8:30pm ET
2550 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY
As part of a series on Israel and Palestine, Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will "share her journey from her traditional Jewish roots to her deep engagement with issues of justice, health, and human rights in Israel/Palestine. The event is free, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.
More about the event HERE.
Register to attend or access the Zoom HERE.
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Judy Karofsky • DisElderly Conduct reading and book signing
Monday, November 17, 2025, 4:00–5:00pm CT
The Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, IL
Author Judy Karofsky will give a reading of her latest book, DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice, followed by a discussion and book signing.
More about the event HERE.
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Bill McKibben book talk at Americans Who Tell The Truth exhibit
Friday, November 21, 2025, 5:30–8:30pm ET
Paul Smith's College VIC, Paul Smiths, NY
Environmentalist featured in Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice, Bill McKibben, will speak about his latest book at the Americans Who Tell The Truth exhibit at Paul Smith's College.
More about the event HERE.
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Barbara Benish essay
"Some Notes on Writing" on
Women Writers, Women['s] Books
Barbara Benish, author of the new ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia, reflects on her experience of writing as a visual artist.
Read the essay HERE.
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Barbara Benish on WAMC Northeast Public Radio show, 51% with Jesse King
Jesse King's podcast is centered on the perspective of 51% of the world's population—women. In this episode, Barbara Benish author talks about her new book ArtMill, and her experience in then-totalitarian Czechoslovakia and "creativity under censorship."
Listen to the conversation HERE.
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Margaret Randall interviewed about "rebel creatives" on KUNM's University Showcase
Megan Kamerick interviews Margaret Randall about her latest Outrider Conversations books Letters from the Edge and More Letters from the Edge and what it means to be a "rebel creative."
Listen to the interview HERE.
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Margaret Randall Lectures on "Writing Under Fascism"
Speaking at the Albuquerque Museum, Margaret Randall shares her experience of writing under fascism. Noting the power of poetry, she presents diverse voices, provides historical context, and answers questions in a talk both powerful and prescient.
Recording of the lecture HERE.
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Mark Dowie on "What Makes a Good Death?"
Mark Dowie, author of Judith Letting Go, spoke on a panel at the Mill Valley Public Library with other local authors Katy Butler and Amy Shea and moderated by Zoe FitzGerald Carter. Their thoughtful discussion grappled with difficult issues surrounding death and caring for our loved ones at the end of their lives.
Listen to a recording HERE.
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Clare Cooper Marcus on Sustainable Futures podcast
Sustainable Futures, a podcast by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, talks with "luminary planner and researcher" Clare Cooper Marcus whose autobiography, Groundbreaking: My Life as an Academic Trailblazer, Mother, and Gardener, comes out in May, 2026.
Listen to the podcast HERE.
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Diane Wilson on A People's Climate
Diane Wilson, essay contributor and portrait subject who is featured on the cover of Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice, is fourth-generation shrimper and environmental activist, who explores her "decades-long fight against Formosa Plastics" and "the power of ordinary people to create extraordinary change."
Listen to the podcast episode HERE.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer on Publisher's Weekly Talks
After the recent release of her children's book, Robin Wall Kimmerer, essay contributor and portrait subject in Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Earth Justice, is interviewed by Publisher's Weekly and talks about her experience and "cultivating agency."
Read the full article HERE.
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Leah Penniman on A People's Climate podcast
Leah Penniman, essay contributor and portrait subject in Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice, went on A People’s Climate podcast, presented by The Nation, to talk about land-based resistance, food justice and racial equity.
Listen to the podcast HERE.
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Lucy Lippard Exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary
Through August 9, 2026
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary
“Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind," a new exhibition highlighting the career of Lippard is set to open in October. Writer, activist, and curator, Lippard has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. Her autobiography, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir was 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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Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell The Truth -
Environmental Justice Truth Tellers Exhibition
Through November 17, 2025
South Parkersburg Library, Parkersburg, WV
South Parkersburg Library will be exhibiting 10 portraits of environmental justice figures by Robert Shetterly, author of Portraits of Earth Justice. The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular library hours.
Learn more about the library and its hours HERE.
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Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell The Truth -
Outdoor Installation
Through November 30, 2025
Paul Smith's College VIC, Paul Smiths, NY
Hosted by the John Brown Lives! Organization, an AWTT outdoor exhibit of portrait replicas is being moved to Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center (VIC). The portraits include abolitionist John Brown, Congressman John Lewis, and #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke (featured in Portraits of Racial Justice), anti-war activist Rachel Corrie (in Portraits of Peacemakers), as well as environmentalist Bill McKibben (in Portraits of Earth Justice) who will speak on-site November 21st.
More about the exhibit 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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Margaret Randall coedited one of the most important independent literary magazines of the 1960s, El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn. A favorite section of each bilingual quarterly issue was the Cartas/ Letters whose many contributors included Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal, Julio Cortázar, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Raquel Jodorowsky, Clayton Eshleman, and Cecilia Vicuña, who wrote about their lives and communities, ideas and aspirations. Randall has selected the most provocative of these letters and provided commentary and context as well as translation for those that had been written in Spanish.
384 pages, fully indexed. Coming out in February!
Pre-order HERE
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