Other Press: 294 books
by Gregor Hens
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
By turns philosophical and darkly comic, an ex-smoker's meditation on the nature and consequences of his nearly lifelong addiction
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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting...
The Perfect American
A Novel of Walt Disney
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition...
The Pen and the Brush
How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
A scintillating glimpse into the lives of acclaimed writers and artists and their inspiring, often surprising convergences, from the author of Monsieur Proust's Library
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With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Anka Muhlstein’s work, The Pen and the Brush revisits the delights...
Song for My Fathers
A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a
consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging
black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local
obscurity until Preservation Hall launched...
A Guest in my Own Country
A Hungarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed...
Never Anyone But You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.
In the years preceding World War I, two young women...
The Road to Rescue
The Untold Story of Schindler's List
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Don’t thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the face constantly.”—Oskar Schindler in a speech to his released Jewish workers in May 1945.
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List popularized the true story of a German...
My Brother Moochie
Regaining Dignity in the Midst of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.
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At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero,...
Villa Triste
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano is one of the most seductive and accessible in his oeuvre: the story of a man’s memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love, and searching for meaning in an uncertain world
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The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless...
The Origin of Species
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction
Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are flaring over the recent codification...
Balzac's Omelette
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread...
The Center of the World
A Novel of J. M. W. Turner and His Lost Painting
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life...
Where Memory Leads
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature, When Memory Comes
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Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with WHEN MEMORY...
The Witness House
Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. In...