Seven Stories Press: 508 books
Power, Privilege and the Post
The Katharine Graham Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Katharine Graham's story has all the elements of the phoenix rising from the ashes, and in Carol Felsenthal's unauthorized biography, Power, Privilege, and the Post, Graham's personal tragedies and triumphs are revealed. The homely and insecure daughter of the Jewish millionaire and owner of The Washington...
Citizen Newhouse
Portrait of a Media Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
An acclaimed biographer takes on one of the world's most elusive media moguls in Citizen Newhouse. The harvest of four years and over 400 interviews, Carol Felsenthal's book is an unauthorized investigative biography that paints a tough yet even-handed portrait.
Here is the father, Sam Newhouse, who...
Between the Fences
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility...
Landscape with Traveler
The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years,Landscape with Traveleris written as the protagonist's diary—inspired by the first century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’s pillow book—and structured...
Blake's Therapy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr. Carl Tolgate has prepared a strange, shocking,...
Darwin's Ghosts
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From the author of Death and the Maiden and other works that explore relations of power in the postcolonial world comes the story of a man whose distant past comes to haunt him. Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century connected somehow to a boy's life...
My Turn
Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Hillary Clinton is running for the presidency with a message of hope and change. But, as Doug Henwood makes clear in this concise, devastating indictment, little trust can be placed in her campaign promises. Rigorously reviewing her record, Henwood shows how Clinton's positions on key issues have...
by Jan Clausen
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen’s Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a decade living within a strong Brooklyn lesbian community with her female lover and their daughter, Clausen travels to a war zone in Nicaragua, where...
No-Signal Area
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2020
The second novel by the highly praised post-war Croatian writer.
"Robert Perisic is a light bright with intelligence and twinkling with irony, flashing us the news that postwar Croatia not only endures but matters."--Jonathan Franzen
Witty and ambitious, No-Signal Area is a sprawling...
World Report 2015
Events of 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch’s signature yearly report, which, in the 2014 volume, highlighted the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance, and more, and also...
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One
Building Movements and Fighting to Win
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”
The radical left is losing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is the radical’s guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights,...
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two
Actions and Strategies for Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal “activism.”
The radical left is losing, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here is the radical’s guide to activist work—the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights,...
by Ramsey Clark, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Haifa Zangana
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer—in...
DIY Resistance
36 Ways to Fight Back!
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
DIY Resistance celebrates the power of the people and shows how readers can take inspiration from the actions and words of leaders, activists, and historical heroes; how we can learn to take care of ourselves physically and emotionally in troubled times, and do our part to look after the larger community...