Books from Metropolitan Books
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
By Greg GrandinIn The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016.
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The Passenger: A Novel
By Ulrich Alexander BoschwitzTwenty-three-year-old Ulrich Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace.
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
By Rashid KhalidiOriginal, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides.
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Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash
By Alexandra Brodsky“Voting not guilty on any charge of rape is the only way to remain faithful to the concept of presumed innocence.” To Elam, “presumed” apparently means “guaranteed and permanent.” Those who decried the Shitty Media Men list or the ...
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
By Thomas HealyA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country” In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial ...
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
By Dr. Leana WenHere, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health.
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Housebroken: Three Novellas
By Yael HedayaIn a striking debut, three piercing, powerful novellas that unveil the hazards of love and desire. The men, women, and even animals in this enthralling collection live at the mercy of their hearts.
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Rouge Street: Three Novellas
By Shuang Xuetao"Rouge Street gives voice to an intriguing cast of characters left behind by China’s economic miracle . . . Shuang pulls no punches . . .
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Paying the Land
By Joe SaccoIn Paying the Land, Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development.
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By Atul GawandeThis book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By Atul GawandeAn intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
By Chalmers JohnsonNow, in Nemesis, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically.
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Lenin on the Train
By Catherine MerridaleNow, drawing on a dazzling array of sources and never-before-seen archival material, renowned historian Catherine Merridale provides a riveting, nuanced account of this enormously consequential journey--the train ride that changed the world ...
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My Body
By Emily RatajkowskiThese essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film ...
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The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us
By Arlie Russell HochschildYet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows in The Outsourced Self, that is no longer the case: everything that was once part of private life—love, friendship, child rearing—is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to ...
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
By Rose GeorgeSpanning science and politics, stories and global epidemics, Nine Pints reveals our life's blood in an entirely new light. Nine Pints was named one of Bill Gates recommended summer reading titles for 2019.
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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
By Edward HollisWith The Secret Lives of Buildings, Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these metamorphoses and shows how buildings have come to embody the history of Western culture.
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Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
By Tristram Hunt"Written with brio, warmth, and historical understanding, this is the best biography of one of the most attractive inhabitants of Victorian England, Marx's friend, partner, and political heir."—Eric Hobsbawm Friedrich Engels is one of the ...
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Caroline FraserRevealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ...
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Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
By Kao Kalia YangHere are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades.