Effective January 1, Nation Books is changing its name to Bold Type Books, reflecting the Nation Institute's new moniker, which is Type Media Center.
The first title that will appear using the new imprint name is the paperback edition of Darnell Moore's No Ashes in the Fire, which goes on sale February 19. The first original title under Bold Type Books will be How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin, which will be published March 26. Backlist and e-books will be rebranded throughout 2019.
Nation Books was founded as the imprint of Nation Institute and is a joint project of the Institute and Hachette Book Group. The Nation Institute was founded 50 years ago in conjunction with the Nation magazine to provide internships and has since expanded to include a half-dozen programs and a community of more than 100 independent journalists, authors, and writing fellows, supporting an investigative newsroom and a book publisher, all with the goal, the Institute said, "of empowering readers and inspiring action.... Bold Type Books communicates our commitment to amplify cultural and political discourse, to engender positive social change, and to challenge conventional narratives."
For 18 years, Nation Books has published "award-winning thought leaders, such as Ibram X. Kendi (author of the National Book Award-winner Stamped from the Beginning), bestselling journalists, such as Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater and Dirty Wars), and whistleblowers and truthtellers, such as Nomi Prins (Collusion and All the Presidents' Bankers). We are also committed to publishing underreported stories and underrepresented perspectives," which include Mychal Denzel Smith's Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and Abby Norman's Ask Me About My Uterus.