Counterpoint: 634 books
Hop Alley
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Cottonwood (2004) was a huge step forward for the burgeoning king of noir Scott Phillips, and his dark and gritty take on the western earned him starred reviews and praise from crime masters Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos. That novel featured the Kansas town beginning in 1872 when it was just...
Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer
Selected and Introduced by Jonathan Lethem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this funny and telling portrait of the artist as a young pornographer, Bernard Wolfe chronicles his own unlikely entrance into the world of letters. The year was 1936, and Depression laden America had no great need for a Yale Phi Bete whose primary talent was for words. After working variously...
The Truth About Lou
A Novel After Salomé
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salomé emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationships of her life: at twenty-one she meets the smitten philosopher Nietzsche; at thirty-six she takes the fledgling...
Eat, Live, Love, Die
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Thoughts on food—and life—from “one of the culinary world’s treasures” (The Wall Street Journal).
Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. This is a woman who at eighty-two years old, and despite being half-blind, went deer hunting for the very first time in the Montana foothills with...
Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches
Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Henry David Thoreau has long been revered for his writings and observations on the natural world. His words evoke his environment with stunning clarity as well as his own innate sense of wonder. His journal, from which the text of Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches is drawn, shares these strengths,...
Late Nights on Air
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The Giller Prize–winning novel from the #1 bestselling author of All Things Consoled. “A pleasure from start to finish” (Toronto Star).
It’s 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. She disarms hard-bitten broadcaster...
by Guy Davenport, Erik Reece
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all...
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
The Year of Living Virtuously
Weekends Off
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
It was Benjamin Franklin who came up with the list temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility.
Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan wondered if Franklin’s perhaps antiquated notions of virtue...
Watergate: The Hidden History
Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established-most recently by PBS in 2003-what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon willing to risk his reelection with so many...
The People's Advocate
The Life and Legal History of America's Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Constitutional attorney’s memoir offers “fascinating and horrifying” accounts of over a dozen historic legal cases—from Watergate to Iran/Contra (Foresight).
In this captivating memoir, attorney Daniel Sheehan recounts his path to becoming a public defense lawyer and takes you behind...
Delirium
The Politics of Sex in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
“An insightful look at the history of sexual mores and politics and how we got to such a contentious place.” —Booklist
Perhaps if the Pill had never been invented, American politics would be very different today, Nancy L. Cohen writes, as she takes us on a gripping journey through the confounding...
Tales of Two Cities
Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This dual history of dueling capitals is “full of unexpected facts . . . Conlin’s case studies of possible cultural exchange are both concise and entertaining” (New York Times Book Review).
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914,...
Shadow Warfare
The History of America's Undeclared Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The evolution of covert operations, detailing the tactics and tools used from the Truman era through the Obama Administration.
Contrary to their contemporary image, deniable covert operations are not something new. Such activities have been ordered by every president and every administration...