Other Press: 294 books
The Butcher's Trail
How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how the perpetrators of Balkan war crimes were captured by the most successful manhunt in history
Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher’s Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture...
Life Laid Bare
The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult."
–Susan Sontag
In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the...
Lost and Found in Russia
Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
After the fall of communism, Russia was in a state of shock. The sudden and dramatic change left many people adrift and uncertain—but also full of a tentative but tenacious hope. Returning again and again to the provincial hinterlands of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to 2008, Susan Richards...
by Charles Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." —*The Guardian *(US)
This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer...
My Escape
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This witty autobiography captures the rich and varied life of a renowned French author and pioneering feminist, through the obstacles and movements in twentieth-century France.
Born in 1920 in Paris, Benoite Groult obtained the right to vote only when she was twenty-five years old. She married...
Emblems of the Passing World
Poems after Photographs by August Sander
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics
Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August...
How James Joyce Made his Name
A Reading of the Final Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.
Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay...
Days in the History of Silence
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances
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Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they...
The Ladies Gallery
A Memoir of Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several...
by Marie Luise Knott
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Short-listed for the Tractatus Essay Prize, an examination of the innovative strategies Arendt used to achieve intellectual freedom
After observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt articulated her controversial concept of the “banality of evil,” thereby posing one of the most chilling...
My Name is Victoria
The Extraordinary Story of one Woman's Struggle to Reclaim her True Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Argentina’s coup d’état in 1976 led to one of the bloodiest dictatorships in its history—thirty thousand people were abducted, tortured, and subsequently “disappeared.” And hundreds of babies born to pregnant political prisoners were stolen from their doomed mothers and “given” to families...
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan
The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
About this Book...
"A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."
-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School
Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.
The Faithful Scribe
A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy
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Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened...