Why Adoptees Are Reclaiming National Adoption Month

By SunAh M Laybourn You’ve seen the photos: a young child holds a sign stating the number of days they were in foster care and triumphantly declaring that today is… READ MORE

Finding a Home for My Own Family’s History

by Lisandro Pérez On October 14, 2023, only four days after the official release date of my book, The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga, I presented it… READ MORE

Challenging Book Bans by Elevating Queer & Trans of Color Children’s Picture Books

By Isabel Millán October 1, 2023 marked the start of Banned Books Week. Generally a celebratory week when book titles are shared among broader conversations over censorship, this year’s stressed… READ MORE

Opinion by Casey Stockstill: Preschool will become a luxury if Congress doesn’t act

This University Press Week, NYU Press is highlighting an author who knows when to #SpeakUP. This opinion piece by Casey Stockstill is reposted from MSNBC.com On Sept. 30, $24 billion… READ MORE

How Art Helps Immigrant Children Find Their Voice

by Silvia Rodriguez Vega By giving voices to those who have yet to be heard, we help create a world where all children are valued, respected, and protected. In Drawing Deportation,… READ MORE

A Vote to Change the World

November 6, 2008

By Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, forthcoming from NYU Press in 2009. My wife and I were tired. We’re… READ MORE

Indecision 2008: NYU Press Edition

November 5, 2008

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., co-editor of From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State and the forthcoming When Law Fails, made an appearance last night on Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2008” presidential… READ MORE

Black Founding Fathers & Barack

November 4, 2008

Rich Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, discusses what this election might have meant to our nations black founding fathers…. READ MORE

Prophetic Airwaves

November 3, 2008

Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, can be seen on C-SPAN’s BookTV through this link. Check it out… READ MORE

Belva Lockwood on TV

October 31, 2008

CSPAN’s BookTV held a panel discussion of the 2008 Best of the Best from the University Presses featuring five prominent librarians. One of the books featured was our very own… READ MORE

The Graffiti Lives Trailer

October 30, 2008

Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground by Gregory Snyder Coming in January from NYU Press… Pre-order your copy at Amazon today!

Religion Says Fred

October 29, 2008

For all of you publishing geeks and religious study scholars out there, Publishers Weekly has an excellent group interview posted about academic publishers putting out books on religion in the… READ MORE

Politics in Paperback

October 27, 2008

The NYTimes Sunday Book Review gave a brief shout-out to The Art of Ill Will by Donald Dewey (NYU Press 2008) in their Paperback Row article. THE ART OF ILL… READ MORE