Welcome to New Village Press!
A nonprofit publishing company based in New York City, New Village Press is the first publisher to focus on grassroots community building. Our independent, nonprofit press publishes books and hosts events that contribute to thriving, creative, and socially just communities.
New Village Press has been a publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design. Our titles aim to animate emerging movements in societal transformation with true stories about collaborative community building and the creative new roles that artists and scholars, citizens and planners can play in public life.
The press crosses boundaries between professional, academic, and informal education with books that engage scholars, practitioners, and community activists alike. Most significantly, New Village books go beyond abstract policy and polemics to present the human motivations and nitty-gritty work for making a certain part of the world a better place. Our books are distributed by New York University Press. New Village Press, Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation.
Just Released!
My Deepest Desire
by Tamiki Hara
New translation by Liza Dalby
Ink drawings by Sandy Walker
My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting experience of tragedy, it is a demonstration of how dreams, memories, and traumatic despair intertwine inside a person’s psyche.
