Arcade: 311 books
All Gall Is Divided
The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post).
E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"...
Rumi
A New Translation of Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Championed by the likes of Madonna, Donna Karan, and Deepak Chopra, Rumi has won such a following in this country that a few years ago he was proclaimed our bestselling poet. But translations that have popularized the work of this thirteenth-century Sufi mystic have also strayed from its essence....
Bin Laden
Behind the Mask of a Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Osama bin Laden is still a vivid symbol of outrage and tragedy in the American imagination. One of the most-recognized faces of terror, bin Laden has presented himself to the world as a paragon of ascetic virtue. Journalist...
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The summer of ’47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Forêt, roughly an hour from Paris, the peaceful radiance of the day is interrupted by the discovery that, along a nearby riverbank, the body of a man has washed up, a gaping wound in his skull. Beside him rests a beautiful, nearly bare-breasted...
Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
In life, Beckett was notoriously reticent, preferring to let his work speak for itself. In the first half of this collection, he reveals many of his inner thoughts and honest opinions about his life, writing, friends, and colleagues in candid interviews published for the first time in this book. He...
by Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a "history of man". Unlike countless other histories that simply chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work explores the human heart, the meaning of human nature, and the duality that exists within all beings.
In Other Words
40 Years of Writing on Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A wide-ranging and beautiful collection of essays from one of world literature’s most important writers.
Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia’s foremost public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays-spanning from 1968 to the present day-demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive...
Trail of Feathers
In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to fly like birds” over the jungle, as a Spanish...
Year of the Orphan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut with a gutsy, badass young female protagonist—for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker.
In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the...
The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
**The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their history, dignity, and...
The Stoning of Soraya M.
A Story of Injustice in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was...
by Patrick Myler
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The definitive book (The Ring) on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavyweight championship bout between Germany's Max Schmeling and America's "Brown Bomber," Joe Louis. More than the world heavyweight championship was at stake when Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling on...
Green Ribbons and Turbans
Young Iranians Against the Mullahs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
During the last presidential election in Iran, nonviolent protestors defied the mullahs’ power by wearing green ribbons on their wrists. In June of 2009, the inhabitants of Tehran were living underground to escape the government’s authority, strangled by interdictions, dreaming of freedom and...
A Life in the Balance
The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story, A Journey from Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row. When the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was life. Three-and-a-half decades later, Billy Wayne is still behind...