Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books

Primo Levi's Resistance

Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

by Sergio Luzzatto
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his life No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the...

Marx's General

The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

by Tristram Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

"Written with brio, warmth, and historical understanding, this is the best biography of one of the most attractive inhabitants of Victorian England, Marx's friend, partner, and political heir."—Eric Hobsbawm Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures...

Freethinkers

A History of American Secularism

by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005

An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers...

The Empire of Necessity

Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World

by Greg Grandin
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter,...
by Michael Frayn
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael...

The Book of Love

The Story of the Kamasutra

by James McConnachie
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008

An engaging, enlightening "biography" of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world's most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world's best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular...

The Wrecking Crew

How Conservatives Rule

by Thomas Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

From the author of the landmark bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misrule In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the...

Drinking the Sea at Gaza

Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege

by Amira Hass
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work...

Putin's Russia

Life in a Failing Democracy

by Anna Politkovskaya
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007

A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of Russian journalists" (The New York Times) Hailed as "a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness" (New Statesman), Anna Politkovskaya made her name with her fearless reporting...

I Am Alive and You Are Dead

A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

by Emmanuel Carrère
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère's I Am Alive and...

The Complex

How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

by Nick Turse
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008

A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From...

In the Name of Democracy

American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond

by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, Brendan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information...

Voices of Time

A Life in Stories

by Eduardo Galeano
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear,...

War Is Not Over When It's Over

Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War

by Ann Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010

From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women In 2007, the International Rescue Committee, which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really...
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