Counterpoint Press: 319 books
Black Cool
One Thousand Streams of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This “probing collection”—edited by the author of Black, White and Jewish—explores Black Cool with entries from bell hooks, Margo Jefferson and many more (Kirkus).
This collection of essays conceived of and edited by Rebecca Walker explores the ineffable state and protean aesthetics...
An Apple a Day
A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“She does a good job of explaining how an anorexic worries that if she relaxes the rules, she will be insatiable. An insightful and fascinating read.” —Booklist
I haven’t tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I’m walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat . . . Remember when...
by Neil Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Menace both real and imagined haunt two Dubliners in this “unsettling . . . seductive” modern Gothic “that ultimately leaves one gasping” (Irish Times).
“Vampires, secrets, the mysteries of identity: the obsessions that run through the director Neil Jordan’s films are at the center...
Exile Nation
Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
“Exile Nation tells the dirty story none of us really wants to hear . . . Shaw ‘did time’ in prison and lived to write about it.” —John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author
Originally published as a series on Reality Sandwich and The Huffington Post, Exile Nation is a work of...
Tea Time with Terrorists
A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A journalist’s travelogue of war-torn Sri Lanka “brings refreshing clarity and enlightenment” to our understanding of terrorism (Robert Young Pelton).
Armed with a map and a motorcycle, Mark Stephen Meadows ventures to Sri Lanka’s war zone to interview terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers...
God's Doodle
The Life and Times of the Penis
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
“A remarkably entertaining and informative look at the male organ down through the ages . . . undeniably funny.” —Booklist
Throughout history, man has revered his penis as his “most precious ornament.” From small to large, thick to thin, smooth to wrinkled, Hickman lets the history...
by Mark Zepezauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A revised and updated edition of the explosive book that blows the lid off the Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA:
• hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learned—and used—their techniques
• has been involved in assassinations,...
Looking for Transwonderland
Travels in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe...
All My Bones Shake
Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein).
In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s...
Black Flies
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A “raw and fascinating” novel based on the author’s experiences as a New York City paramedic during the crack epidemic—”Burke is a poet of trauma” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Black Flies is the story of paramedic Ollie Cross and his first year on the job in mid-’90s Harlem....
Slavery Inc.
The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A shocking exposé of the lucrative global business of human trafficking that “crackles with the intrigue of a spy novel” (The Washington Post).
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, the international sex trade is one industry that continues to thrive. Operating just out of sight,...
The Great Frustration
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“Fried’s stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt.” —Dan Chaon
In “Loeka Discovered,” a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the...
Approaching the Future
64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
From a Wired technology journalist: an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow’s world (Financial Times).
In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley offers the essential...
Vexation Lullaby
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
“Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel. Vexation Lullaby is pure raw pleasure from start to finish.” **—**Lily King, New York Times–bestelling author of Euphoria
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup—his ex-girlfriend called him a “mama’s boy”...