Seven Stories Press

25/01/2025

This week marks the publication of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgraby of the Markaz Review. We’re proud and grateful to spend this week celebrating the publication by sharing excerpts from the book. Today’s piece is Watchtowers by Taysir Batniji.

The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres, so do the Palestinians, and their struggles and triumphs.

To read more excerpts and purchase your copy, visit the 🔗 in our bio.

24/01/2025

This week marks the publication of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgraby of the Markaz Review. We’re proud and grateful to spend this week celebrating the publication by sharing excerpts from the book. Today’s piece is Shoreless Sea #11 by Tayseer Barakat.

The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres, so do the Palestinians, and their struggles and triumphs.

To read more excerpts and purchase your copy, visit the 🔗 in our bio.

23/01/2025

SUMŪD: A New Palestinian Reader -

An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art from the Markaz Review.

23/01/2025

This week marks the publication of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgraby of the Markaz Review. We’re proud and grateful to spend this week celebrating the publication by sharing excerpts from the book. Today’s piece is My House by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Fady Joudah.

The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres, so do the Palestinians, and their struggles and triumphs.

To read more excerpts and purchase your copy, visit the 🔗 in our bio.

22/01/2025

Out now - SUMŪD: A New Palestinian Reader

An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art from the Markaz Review.

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An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art from the Markaz Review.

22/01/2025

This week marks the publication of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgraby of the Markaz Review. We’re proud and grateful to spend this week celebrating the publication by sharing excerpts from the book. Today’s piece is We Will Never Leave by Haneen Nazzal.

The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres, so do the Palestinians, and their struggles and triumphs.

To read more excerpts and purchase your copy, visit the 🔗 in our bio.

21/01/2025

This week marks the publication of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgraby of the . We’re proud and grateful to spend this week celebrating the publication by sharing excerpts from the book, beginning with today’s piece from Noor Hindi, Pledgling Allegiance.

The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader honors the Palestinian spirit and its power in the face of dispossession and war. When governments around the world enable the genocide of a people and the dilapidation of a sacred homeland, the Palestinian people stand fast and resist. The fifty-eight contributions in this collection remind readers that just as love perseveres, so do the Palestinians, and their struggles and triumphs.

To read more excerpts and purchase your copy, visit the 🔗 in our bio.

16/01/2025

Out now - Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible

Through these powerful interviews with scholars, organizers, and activists leading the movement to end policing and prison, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.

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Award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents a visionary outlook for a future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.

15/01/2025

🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨 Win a copy of TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION by !

To enter, follow us on Instagram and tag an abolitionist friend in the comments.

We’ll contact the winner at the end of the week. Limited to US residents (sorry!). Only one winner will be chosen.

14/01/2025

Happy pub day to ’s TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION: A POLICE-FREE WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse.

In Talking About Abolition, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents an inspiring collection of her conversations with scholars, movement figures, and activists who are leading the movement to end policing and prisons.

From articulating the best counter-arguments to pervasive “copaganda,” to exposing the moral bankruptcy of reformism, each conversation connects the dots between past and present while imagining a collective future rooted in liberation, freedom, and justice.

TALKING ABOUT ABOLITION is available at sevenstories.com and wherever fine books are sold.

09/01/2025

“Abolition is a mandate to create new social, economic, and political conditions that will render carceral punishment obsolete. It is a mandate for revolution.” —Angela Y. Davis

A collection of books about prisons, abolition, and the ongoing fight for a liberated world.

07/01/2025

Starting the new year off with some Seven Stories in the wild! Honored to have our book THE WTO: FIVE YEARS OF REASONS TO RESIST CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION included in ’s incredible and radical new WTO retrospective.

TEAMSTERS, TURTLES, AND BEYOND is on view through April 27th. Want more Lori Wallach? Pick up a copy of THE WTO on our website today!

26/12/2024

Didn’t find what you wanted under the tree? Looking for an eBook for your flight home? Our end-of-year sale runs until December 31!

19/12/2024

Have you heard about the Teamsters strike against Amazon? The media is doing a great job of burying the story, but Teamsters Amazon workers all over the country are on strike as they fight for a fair contract from the biggest e-commerce company jn the world.

Delivery workers are a major backbone of the book industry. Furthermore, as we’ve seen over the past few years, they’re a backbone of the economy as a whole. It’s crucial that we support their fight for a fair contract. This holiday season, stand with us in solidarity with the Teamsters and 🛑 don’t shop on Amazon 🛑

18/12/2024

As you may have heard, our big holiday sale is in full swing — you may have even placed an order already! But we’ve published a lot of books since we opened in 1995, meaning there are many, many titles to sift through.

So, we thought it might be helpful to share some recs* from Seven Stories staffers, to hopefully add a little structure to the literary madness and, crucially, open your eyes to some books that you may have otherwise missed.

And all for 30% off list price (40% off for newsletter subscribers). What a delight.

*We love all of our children equally, of course. These are just some books we’re really digging at the moment.

12/12/2024

Revisiting some of our favorite Gabo pics in honor of 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE on !

Want more delightful Marquez Moments? Check out SOLITUDE & COMPANY by Silvana Paternostro!

Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. Paternostro brings together the story of how little Gabito became Gabriel García Márquez, and of how Gabriel García Márquez survived his own self-creation.

05/12/2024

From the desk of the Seven Stories Bureau of Statisticians and Analytics, our 2024 year in review! Swipe to the end for the most important info 😉

03/12/2024

Happy pub day to STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2025, our annual joint production with !

Highlighting the year’s most significant independent journalism—including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories—Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled.

Balancing critical analysis with optimistic vision, the book’s diverse contributors champion press freedom and critical media literacy to hold the powerful accountable and promote a more just and inclusive society.