Seven Stories Press: 508 books
The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature
The World's Greatest Kid's Lit as Comics and Visuals
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by...
The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Vol. 1
From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The first of two volumes builds on the brilliant and original Graphic Canon series in retelling classic works of literature as comics and other visual forms. Organized thematically, Volume 1 opens with "The Act" (think In Cold Blood and A Clockwork Orange), followed by sections dedicated...
by Ted Rall
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents revealed by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistleblower and then a fugitive? Rall delves into Snowden's early life and...
Night, Again
Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven, a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sleep." A young soldier, saved by a stranger, can never again find her to thank her. A man...
A Young People's History of the United States
Columbus to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume...
Rebel Bookseller
Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times. Bookseller Andy Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Bookseller six years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this second edition, Laties’s book can be a rallying cry for everyone...
Impeach the President
The Case Against Bush and Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
This brilliantly argued and wonderfully written collection by twenty-two of the best political analysts in the US analyzes the extraordinary and unprecedented threat the White House and its allies present to civil liberties, civil rights, the Constitution, international law, and the future of the...
Algren at Sea
Notes from a Sea Diary & Who Lost an American?-Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Nelson Algren's two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.
Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable...
Other Septembers, Many Americas
Selected Provocations, 1980-2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup...
Grand Central Winter
Stories from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God's corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or his friend Suzy, a hooker and "past due tourist" whose infant child he sometimes babysits, whether he is recounting his experiences at Street News, where he began hawking the newspaper for a living wage,...
Sleepaway School
Stories from a Boy's Life; A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy...
by Mario Marazziti, Paul Elie
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice”...
Autodafe 1
The Journal of the International Parliament of Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
AUTODAFE is a collection of reports, interviews, correspondence, narratives, and stories from around the world. The review aims to be a place for debate and experimentation, a place where writers, silenced by censorship join voices with world-renowned writers. The contributors are all members of the...
Generation Roe
Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Strong support among women was key to Obama’s reelection. At the start of his second term, it is time for Barack Obama, forty years after Roe v. Wade, to finally help lead us to demystify abortion. One-third of all American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45, and most of those...