How do we receive, produce, and distribute information? What platforms are needed to generate and circulate knowledge? Framed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics’ 2025–2027 Focus Theme, Matter of Intelligence, the fourth annual New School New Books reading series reflects on creative and urgent publishing platforms situated within institutions of higher learning, focusing on “intelligence” as knowledge production and the apparatuses that generate it. 

Organized by the Vera List Center and co-presented with the Creative Writing Program and The New School Libraries, New School New Books 2026 brings together 20 newspapers, magazines, digital publications, and journals run by faculty, students, and staff from across the university. Through conversational panels staged within the new art installation Robert Rauschenberg & the News, this program addresses modes of timely, critical, creative responses to sociopolitical issues at a moment when such responses are under increased censure, surveillance, and retaliation.

The program showcases 11 and a Half Journal; 12th Street Journal; Africa is a Country; Back Matter; A Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party; Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab; Forty5 – Parsons Paris; Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal; Indigenous Rising; The Inquisitive Eater; Lang Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice; Lit Magazine; The New Context; The New School Economic Review; Parsons First Year Journal; Post/doc; Printing Fashion; Public Seminar; SexTech Lab; Social Research: An International Quarterly; The Siren; Ulises; and ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry. See the full list of speakers below.

10:30–11:30 am Session 1: Collective Inquiry, Critical Contexts

Robert Sember, ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry
Shamira Ibrahim, Africa is a Country
Oz Frankel, Social Research: An International Quarterly
Re’al Christian, Vera List Center’s Post/doc

11:30 am–12:30 pm Session 2: Journalism and the Commons

Jackie Clark, 11 and a Half Journal
Anantha Krishna Boddapati, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Public Seminar

1–2 pm Session 3: Capitalism and Consumption

Kristin Reynolds and Majandra Rodriguez Acha, Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab
Hijab Ahmed and Camilla Marchese González, The Inquisitive Eater
Preeti Gopinath and Michele Gorman, A Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party
Yannis Bougiatiotis and Madhav Ramachandran, The New School Economic Review
Niyati Pendekanti, The New Context

2:30–3:30 pm Session 4: Publics in Practice

Kia Gregory and Anthony Wilder, Lang Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice
Luke Davis, Patricia Michaels, and Justine Woods, Indigenous Rising
Pani Farvid and Sedef Ozoguz, SexTech Lab

4–5 pm Session 5: Reading Room

Theodore Kerr, 12th Street Journal
Kayla Romberger, Back Matter and Ulises
Bella De Angelis, Back Matter
Charlotte Slivka and Richard Berwind, Lit Magazine
Jess Irish, Parsons First Year Journal