Description The New Press is a not-for-profit independent publishing company. The publisher's titles include national bestsellers such as Studs Terkel's Race and Peter Irons's May It Please the Court. Other titles include East to America: Korean American Life Stories and Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education. The company's books are distributed to bookstores through W.W. Norton & Company. The New Press was founded in 1990 and uses foundation support to publish its books.