The Nation and OR Books are together establishing a book publishing imprint, Nation Books, that will launch this fall. Distributed by OR (which is distributed by Consortium), Nation Books will publish four to six titles a year, which will be a mix of material by current writers for the Nation and writers from its 160-year history.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and editorial director of the Nation, commented: "At this perilous moment, the Nation's indispensable voice and legacy has never been more essential. Our partnership with OR is a great opportunity to deepen the reach and impact of the Nation's most exciting writers and thinkers, past and present--and inspire a new generation."
Colin Robinson, publisher at OR, added: "The first book we published when we started OR was a searing anthology by Nation editors and writers about Sarah Palin, which went on to the New York Times bestseller list. With plentiful new targets, we are very much looking forward to repeating that experience, drawing on the terrific journalists at a superb progressive magazine."
The first Nation Books titles include:
The Nine Have Spoken, edited by Richard Kreitner, which argues that "our current right-wing Supreme Court is no aberration, but rather part of a long history where demands for a more democratic, accountable federal judiciary have been constant--and unheeded--for more than 150 years."
Obsolete by Garrison Lovely, which is "a deep dive into the Silicon Valley hivemind, and a wake-up call for those who fail to register AI as a threat."
These Dis-United States by 50 writers, artists, and essayists, each of whom contributes "a short original reflection on their own state and assess our current national dis-union."
The Myth of Red Texas by David Griscom, which "finds that Texas today is a result of class struggle; to win a better future in the Lone Star state, [Griscom] writes, the Left must embrace its hidden past."