This publication accompanies New School New Books 2025. First presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in spring 2023, New School New Books—a reading series—introduces the latest publications from the New School community, while celebrating a wide array of publishing, reading, and listening practices across New York City. As an extension of New School New Books, this broadsheet features the second edition of the Incomplete* Listing of NYC Libraries, Reading Rooms, and Archives, which includes a growing map of freely accessible reading spaces throughout New York City coupled with roving libraries and open access digital collections, foregrounding libraries as sites of intervention, liberation, and repair.

Organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and co-presented with the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Equity & Belonging, with the support of the Provost’s Office and The New School Libraries, the third edition of New School New Books is divided into three parts. Part one features recent publications by university faculty, centers, and institutes, across all five colleges. Arriving from different fields and programs, they demonstrate the interdisciplinary and public-facing nature of New School scholarship. 

Part two expands to celebrate the university’s broader publishing community. For the second year in a row, the reading series is presented in conjunction with the Spitting Image Art Book Fair (March 21–22), a community exhibition and trading event organized by students of Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design and co-presented by the Vera List Center. With a focus on artist books, zines, and print ephemera, SIABF honors New York City’s DIY scene through the display of contemporary paperworks. 

Part three marks the launch of the Vera List Center’s latest anthology, As for Protocols, co-published by Amherst College Press. The first publication to critically examine protocols across a wide range of disciplines, the book brings together contributions by twenty-four international artists, writers, scholars, musicians, architects, and scientists who explore protocols across various fields, foregrounding opportunities for creating new protocols that are inclusive and equitable.