Seven Stories Press imprint: 475 books
Fidel
An Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a liberator, some say a dictator. In Fidel, Nestor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by Latin Americans: as the leader...
At War with War
5000 Years of Conquests, Invasions, and Terrorist Attacks, An Illustrated Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
At War with War visualizes humanity's 5,000-year-long state of conflict, chaos, and violence on a continuous timeline. Seventy pages of stark black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and woodcuts illustrate history's most notorious battles -- from 3300 BCE to the present day. Interspersed are contemplations...
The Albino Album
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted...
by Francois Begaudeau
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film...
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers.
"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson...
Mother Reader
Essential Literature on Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth,...
A Place to Live
and other selected essays of
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg’s books written...
So Vast the Prison
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with...
Lithium for Medea
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father...
Angels of Catastrophe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A cop is gunned down and unless Ricky Durrutti, a petty criminal with a short biography and a long rap sheet, can figure out who the real shooter is, he's a dead man. From Hunt's Donuts, opposite where the killing took place, to his room in the El Capitán Hotel, from the blue grass and steel Federal...
Columbus and Other Cannibals
The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s...
The Food-Mood Connection
Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Now, at a time when the effects of nutrition on mental health are becoming increasingly recognized and accepted by the general public, comes a completely revised tome from an early advocate of the subject: The Food-Mood Connection, by bestselling health and nutrition expert Gary Null, who was affectionately...
Get Healthy Now!
A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment, and Healthy Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A New York Times Bestseller
The fully revised and updated edition to the national bestseller Get Healthy Now! includes new research and nutritional advice for treating allergies, Diabetes, PMS, Andropause, and everything in-between. From healthy skin and hair to foot and leg care, and featuring...
Typecasting
On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this...