Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project...
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part...
Bait and Switch
The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the...
Live Work Work Work Die
A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit
At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little...
Fighting for Air
The Battle to Control America's Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
A groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans
For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002,...
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced...
The Arab of the Future
A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators-Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor...
by Joe Sacco
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States
Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly...
The Arab of the Future 2
A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf’s internationally acclaimed, #1 French bestseller, which was hailed by The New York Times as “a disquieting yet essential read”
In The Arab of the Future: Volume 1, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as...
The Arab of the Future 3
A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In the third installment of the acclaimed series, the Sattouf family begins to implode under the pressure of Hafez al-Assad's regime and the suffocation of their rural Syrian village.
The Arab of the Future is the widely acclaimed, internationally bestselling graphic memoir that tells the story...
Verax
The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
From a prize-winning journalist and the co-author of the best-selling Zahra's Paradise, a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from 9/11 to the latest drone strike
9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the...
by Mark Binelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Mark Binelli turns his sharp, forceful prose to fiction, in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises
He came on stage in a coffin, carried by pallbearers, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night....
The Abundance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A luminous, bittersweet novel of India and the American midwest, immigrants and their first-generation children, and the power of cooking to bridge the gulfs between them
When Mala and Ronak learn that their mother has only a few months to live, they are reluctantly pulled back into the midwestern...
My Lunches with Orson
Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur
There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches...