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Commercial culture's relentless focus on celebrity and entertainment has put serious publishing into partial eclipse. Nation Books is dedicated to continuing the long tradition of progressive, critical thought in America and is one of the most provocative and exciting imprints in independent publishing.

Founded in 2000, the mission of Nation Books is to publish arresting titles on the social and cultural forces that shape our lives today. Nation Books publishes new, nonfiction works on politics and current events, human rights, feminism, race, gay and lesbian issues, history, art and culture, popular science and the environment.

Nation Books has published an eclectic range of writers that include Gore Vidal, Walter Mosley, Ann Louise Bardach, Norman Mailer, Jeremy Scahill, Kristal Brent Zook, Nick Schou, and Gabriel Thompson.

Nation Books is a project of The Nation Instituteand a co-publishing venture with Perseus Books.

Hamilton Fish, Publisher
John Sherer, Publisher
Carl Bromley, Editorial Director
Ruth Baldwin, Associate Editor
Marissa Colón-Margolies, Assistant Editor
Michele Jacob, Publicity Manager

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El Monstruo: Book Tour

February 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
Get your copy of El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City signed by Nation Books author John Ross, who is traveling across the United States on a mammoth book tour spanning three months and 20 cities. Click here to see if he's coming to a city near you.

February 11 - May 14
Photo Exhibit by Eugene Richards
(Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer Eugene Richards is showing his work, A Procession of Them, at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from February 11 through May 14. The exhibit features troubling black-and-white images of mentally ill and mentally disabled patients who are warehoused in deplorable conditions in psychiatric institutions around the world. MORE

March 27 | 3:30 pm
Investigative Reporting/FOIA for Feminists panel
(Hive 55, 55 Broad Street, New York)
Join Investigative Fund Editor Esther Kaplan as she discusses investigative reporting with fellow panelists Lindsay Beyerstein, Heather Haddon and Deepa Fernandes (who is also an IFUND reporter). MORE

April 8 | 7 pm
A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Obama's Vision, Our Mission
(New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York City)
Join our panel of leading experts—Jonathan Schell, Daniel Ellsberg and Kennette Benedict—in a wide-ranging and incisive conversation moderated by Phil Donahue on the ongoing international struggle for the containment and eventual reduction of the nuclear threat, and how President Obama and the U.S. Senate can be pushed to fulfill the promise of a world without nuclear weapons. This important public conversation is occurring in the run-up to the UN’s regular review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that will take place on May 1, 2010. MORE