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03/22/2025

Celebrate Women’s History: 30% off Highlights from the Catalog
Take 30% off highlights from our catalog of literary fiction, memoir, political non-fiction, and other radical writings for Women’s History Month
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Take 30% off highlights from our catalog of literary fiction, memoir, political non-fiction, and other radical writings for Women’s History Month

03/19/2025

Lux Magazine x SUMŪD

Until April 1st, get a free copy of ‘SUMŪD’ when you subscribe to Lux, our favorite socialist-feminist magazine. -

Subscribe to Lux before April 1st and you’ll get a free copy of SUMUD: A NEW PALESTINIAN READER, edited by Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably

03/19/2025

“We share that truth, and so we share our stories here. When we share our stories, we build our collective archive. When we share our collective history, we articulate our presence. And when we articulate and assert our presence, we can attempt to change our lives for the better and change the future we create. This is my history, which is part of yours. This is our history.”-Antonia Crane, from Lizzie Borden’s WHOREPHOBIA

WHOREPHOBIA, along with an enormous selection of our best and favorite titles by women writers, is available on our website for 30% off through the end of March.

03/15/2025

Radical Midwifery in El Salvador and Other Recommended Reads for Women’s Month -

Read editor Noemi Delgado on community healthcare, the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade, and the making of “Guardianas”

03/12/2025

Human rights are not negotiable. Regardless of where we were born, how much we have, what we believe, our age, or the color of our skin, we all deserve to live with respect, justice, and freedom.

Drawing on the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Yayo Herrero and Luis Demano’s HUMAN RIGHTS presents the story of how far we’ve come and maps out the challenges that await as we work to create a more equitable future for all.

HUMAN RIGHTS is available for 30% off from for the month of March.

03/11/2025

Happy pub day to the most dangerous philosopher in the West!

what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we’re already five minutes past zero hour?

TOO LATE TO AWAKEN sees Slavoj Žižek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty Žižek’s diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the past.

03/08/2025

In honor of International Working Women’s Day, we’re sharing an exclusive first look at GUARDIANAS: Dispatches from the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade / Despachos de la Asociación de Parteras Rosa Andrade, out June 17.

A collection of testimonies from midwives in El Salvador who delivered babies during the twelve-year-long civil war and who, today, fight to protect their ancestral role in the midst of ongoing repression. Collected in 2019 by Salvadoran American birth worker Noemí Delgado, GUARDIANAS weaves together testimonies from twenty members of APRA to upend our ideas of what a medical ethnography can be and what an oral history can do.

Read Noemí’s introduction now on our blog, and pre-order this incredible work of oral history today.

03/08/2025

Radical Midwifery in El Salvador: Read editor Noemi Delgado on community healthcare, the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade, and the making of “Guardianas

“The midwives of APRA fight for a future where the autonomy and intuition of each person giving birth is respected, and where new generations can learn and benefit from this irreplaceable tradition. These women teach us that birth should be a territory of nature and of our own communities, not of the State.”

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Read editor Noemi Delgado on community healthcare, the Association of Midwives Rosa Andrade, and the making of “Guardianas”

03/06/2025

Women’s History Month can trace its beginnings back to the first International Working Women’s Day in 1909. Before it’s revival by feminist activists in the 1970’s — and the UN’s subsequent ratification in 1977 — International Women’s Day’s first appeared in 1908, when 15,000 women working in the New York City garment industry went on strike to demand better working conditions. The following year, the Socialist Party of America declared the first International Working Women’s Day.

To celebrate these radical roots, we’re delighted to share a selection of literary fiction, memoir, political non-fiction, and other writings that we recommend for Women’s History Month, and for the rest of the year, too, all available for 30% off. Visit our blog to learn more.

All images via the archives.

03/04/2025

Happy pub day to PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB, the latest in our series of Robert Graves reprints, featuring a new introduction by Madison Smartt Bell.

Robert Graves continues the fictionalized account of the adventures of Sergeant Robert Lamb, an Irish soldier who fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War. The second in a two-book series, this account is inspired by the real-life Sergeant Lamb’s personal memoirs. Renowned poet, classicist, and novelist Graves traces the sergeant’s harrowing time in military service, providing a compelling, only barely fictionalized eyewitness account of a crucial point in American history.

03/01/2025

Read an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s new book “Living in Your Light,” tr. Emma Ramadan -

Read an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s new novel, LIVING IN YOUR LIGHT, translated by PEN Translation Prize-winner Emma Ramadan Out now, Living in Your Light is a story in in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor, his mother.

02/27/2025

Happy 91st birthday to tireless activist, advocate, fashion icon, strawberry fan, and beloved Seven Stories author Ralph Nader ❤️

02/26/2025

Read an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s new novel, LIVING IN YOUR LIGHT, translated by PEN Translation Prize-winner Emma Ramadan

Out now, Living in Your Light is a story in in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor, his mother. -

Read an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s new novel, LIVING IN YOUR LIGHT, translated by PEN Translation Prize-winner Emma Ramadan Out now, Living in Your Light is a story in in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor, his mother.

02/25/2025

Happy US pub day to ’s novel LIVING IN YOUR LIGHT!

Three moments in the life of Malika, a Moroccan countrywoman. From 1954 to 1999. From French colonization to the death of King Hassan II. It is her voice we hear in this stunning new novel, translated by , who won the PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Taia’s last novel, A Country for Dying.

Malika recounts with rage her strategies to escape the injustices of History. To survive. To have a little space of her own.

Now available from Seven Stories Press.

02/19/2025

Happy Black History Month! We’re sharing highlights all month from our catalog of Black writers and thinkers. Today we’re spotlighting Quincy Troupe.

Working across genres and collaborators, the great American poet and journalist Quincy Troupe tells intimate stories on nationwide scales. His work with Seven Stories includes MILES AND ME, his very personal memoir of his friendship with Miles Davis and the influence Miles played on Quincy’s life, as well as DUENDE, a generous and gregarious collection spanning over 50 years of poetry from California’s first Poet Laureate.

02/18/2025

ATTN: NEW ERNAUX COMING FALL 2025

Seven Stories is proud to announce the forthcoming English-language publication of Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s new book THE OTHER GIRL, translated from the French by the inimitable Alison L. Strayer. First published in France in 2011, THE OTHER GIRL is Ernaux’s profound investigation into the life of her late older sister, who died at six years old, two years before Annie was born.

In the summer of 1950, when Annie Ernaux is ten, she inadvertently learns she had a sister who died at six, two years before her own birth. Having believed she was an only child, she learns that she has replaced another daughter—“the little saint,” “the absent one in every conversation,” who lives on in Annie’s parents’ wordless grief.

THE OTHER GIRL is available for preorder now.

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s from Aleida and Che (and the rest of us at Seven Stories 💚)

02/14/2025

Happy Valentines Day to all the radicals out there.