Other Press: 294 books
Everything Is Broken Up and Dances
The Crushing of the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class.
Just a handful of years into the new millennium,...
Departures
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Departures is Paul Zweig’s celebration of life and love. Zweig thought of himself as a sojourner, a contemporary Wandering Jew, a man with “a loose wire in his genes.” He led a number of distinct lives: as a Jewish child in Brooklyn and on a farm in the Catskills; as a literature student at...
We Are Rich
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The little, leafy town of Rancho Esperanza has been a perfect place to live for over a century–a bastion of good, solid, Anglo-Saxon, Republican money. These founding fathers built their gracious estates and country club and fondly called their town, “Ohio by the Sea.” There was only one traffic...
La Petite
A Memoir of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In La Petite, the renowned French writer and film producer Michèle Halberstadt vividly recounts the painful events that surrounded the death of her beloved grandfather, which led to a suicide attempt when she was twelve years old. Michèle’s mother favored her older sister, her father was emotionally...
Putnam Camp
Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award
An innovative work of biography that traces the lasting impact of the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering American psychologist James Jackson Putnam.
In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to "Putnam...
And the Word Was
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2010
When the tragic death of his son compels Dr. Neil Downs to flee New York City for India, he takes a job as the resident physician at the American Embassy, where he is introduced to the paradoxes of Indian social and political life. Unable to mourn, and angry about a betrayal on the part of his wife,...
The Last Rendezvous
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
“Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.” –Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet–the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his poètes maudits, or “accursed poets,” a group that included...
Pushing Past the Night
Coming to Terms with Italy's Terrorist Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being questioned about his role in the Piazza Fontana...
Another Life
On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden’s most highly respected writers
“Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s...
Oriana Fallaci
The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage and established the "La Fallaci" style of interview.
Oriana Fallaci is known for her uncompromising vision. To retrace...
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new...
by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out...
by Joel Dor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the...
Guapa
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval....