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 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 includes Forty5 – Parsons Paris; 11 and a Half Journal; 12th Street Journal; A Decolonized and Decarbonized Dinner Party; Fashion Studies; Africa is a Country; Food and Social Justice Action Research Lab; Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal; Journalism + Design Lab Blog; Lang Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice; Lit Magazine; Parsons First Year Journal; Post/doc; Printing Fashion; Public Seminar; re:D (Regarding Design); Social Research: An International Quarterly; The Inquisitive Eater; The New Context; The New School Economic Review; The Siren; and ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry.

Full schedule to be announced.